How many Ukrainian priests were killed by the Russians: Zelenskyy named the number
According to him, Russia is destroying Ukrainian churches and Ukrainian schools.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the occupiers have killed 50 Ukrainian clergymen. Evidence of torture against them was also recorded.
This was announced by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi in an interview for CBN.
“A lot of priests, different priests were captured. Or they were killed. By the way, they (Russians) killed 50. And they killed them in different ways. There is all the evidence of how they tortured them,” Zelenskyi said.
According to the president, the occupiers tortured the priests only because they were supposed to serve the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill. These priests refused to serve the Russian Orthodox Church. For this, the occupiers shot them, Zelensky noted.
In addition, the Russian Federation destroyed about 700 churches. “They attacked with bombs, they attacked with rockets. And where they entered the territory of our state, they just…