Kiper says that Odesa was “saved” from the Russian landing by the Metropolitan of the UOC MP, who traveled with the icon along the sea

Also, TSN.ua gathered what is known about Metropolitan Agafangel of the UOC MP, who allegedly saved Odesa from the landing of Russian occupiers.

Oleg Kiper, head of the Odesa OVA, stated that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Metropolitan Agafangel of the Odesa and Izmail UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate traveled with the icon along the Black Sea coast, after which a storm arose, which allegedly prevented the Russians from landing.

Kiper said this in an interview with Nataliya Moseychuk within the author's project “Moseychuk+”.

“Back in the first days of the war, Agafangel at the age of 84, now he is 86, he took the icon… and he almost a whole day or a whole day, I will not (emphasize) it now, so as not to make a mistake, he took the icon and traveled along the coast so that the Russian ships could not land here. And we know for sure that for 10 days there was a strong storm on the Black Sea…