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UOC MP representatives obstruct church burial for ATO soldier in a church of his native village

20.04.2018, 13:02

"In Ptycha there is an ATO soldier, who until recently was considered missing. Everyone knows Mykola Humenyuk's story. We conducted a DNA examination that confirmed - Mykola died ... At a meeting (between representatives of the UOC (MP) and the UOC-KP) someone asked: isn’t Mykola worthy to be exhumated in the village so that the burial service was performed for him in his native temple? Ms. Nina Smogileva, a supporter of the UOC (MP), replied to this: "He’s got what he’s earned,” wrote Alina Dubovskaya.

The information was found on web that in the scandalous village of Ptycha, Dubensky district of Rivne oblast, representatives of the UOC (MP) make it impossible to serve a church burial service for the deceased ATO soldier in a local temple. Journalist Alina Dubovskay wrote it on her Facebook page.


In this village, for the four consecutive years, the communities of the Kyiv and Moscow Patriarchate are struggling for a local temple that has been closed since 2014, RBC-Ukraine reports.


Mykola Gumenyuk, an ATO soldier born in Ptycha has long been considered missing. According to Wikipedia, he was mobilized in April 2014, he was a soldier, a driver of the 51st Separate Mechanized Brigade, which is repair company and restoration battalion. In August, he came home for a short vacation, and returned to the unit. He died during a breakthrough from the entrapment near Ilovaisk, near the village of Novokaterinovka (Krasnoarmeysky district). He was at the controls of ZIL-131, was injured in his leg and hand, handed over documents to the retreating soldiers, having remained on the sunflower field. A group of physicians and military colonel Palagnyuk picked up the body on September 1, 2014. Recently, the soldier was identified by DNA analysis. Mykola was buried on October 10, 2014 at the Krasnopilsk Cemetery as a temporarily unidentified defender of Ukraine. Now his relatives want to bury him in his native village, but because of a conflict with the UOC (MP), a burial service cannot be performed for the hero in his native temple.


"In Ptycha there is an ATO soldier, who until recently was considered missing. Everyone knows Mykola Humenyuk's story. We conducted a DNA examination that confirmed - Mykola died ... At a meeting (between representatives of the UOC (MP) and the UOC-KP) someone asked: isn’t Mykola worthy to be exhumated in the village so that the burial service was performed for him in his native temple? Ms. Nina Smogileva, a supporter of the UOC (MP), replied to this: "He’s got what he’s earned,” wrote Alina Dubovskaya.