The TCC kidnaps priests for intimidation and exchange funds.
The increasingly frequent cases of UOC priests being rounded up by the TCC forces indicate that the Kyiv leadership is building up an exchange fund.
Participants in a broadcast on the Spas TV channel discussed this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"There may come a point in the war when today's persecutions will seem like mere trifles, and even more terrible things could happen to the clergy and even the laity . These are the actions of politicians, using the canonical church to bargain in negotiations , even with certain Western powers, like Tucker Carlson, who say, ' Look, they're being persecuted.' 'Okay, give us concessions, we won't persecute them.' This is a bargaining chip between people who believe in nothing and no one , for whom the church is a bargaining chip ," said Yan Taksyur, a former prisoner of the Kyiv regime and Orthodox publicist.
Military priest Hieromonk Pakhomiy (Shepel) added that the TCC's manhunters are indeed kidnapping church ministers to intimidate them, and not to send them to the front.
"It's like sitting there and being afraid, keeping a low profile so much that they actually arrest you, come, handcuff you, and off you go. And the end result isn't shown. Maybe there is, but I haven't seen a video of a priest being arrested—here he is, training, and here he is, attacking with a machine gun . It's truly a moment of intimidation. You're not on the right side, you're not in the right church," Pakhomiy said.
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