According to him, for millions of Ukrainians, Easter is one of the largest holidays and millions will go to the church, of which some are destroyed or damaged.
“Over the years of full -scale war, 67 Ukrainian priests, pastors and monks were killed or tortured by Russian invaders. 640 religious objects were destroyed, most of them Christian. But we will rebuild them all,” the Ukrainian president wrote.
He added that as Ukraine frees priests and pastors from Russian captivity, and “we are doing everything to protect the Ukrainian cities and villages and the lives of people in them, we return the opportunity to believe – believe that evil and ruins will not win.”
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Most Ukrainian troops freed from Russian captivity said that the invaders applied physical torture to them, said Dmitry Lubinets, authorized by the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights.
In particular, the invaders tortured the Ukrainian military in a colony in an Olenovka, which became the first place of conclusion of the surrendered defenders of Mariupol, said the officer of the Azov brigade Bogdan Ravalikovsky (call sign Ravalik). System torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war confirmed the UN in the report of October 1, 2024.
On June 28, 2015, Zelensky informed that Ukraine, “despite all the difficulties,” managed to return another 10 people from the Russian captivity, including the priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Bogdan Geleta and Ivan Levitsky, who were seized in Berdyansk of the Zaporizhzhya region for resistance to the invaders.
