Metropolitan of Zaporozhye and Melitopol Luka called on Patriarch Bartholomew to ask for forgiveness from the parishioner of the St. Michael’s Church in the village of Zadubrovka Vasily Khashchiyuk, who was almost killed by supporters of the OCU. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

“I am addressing Bartholomew personally. The face of this injured person in the photo is one of the many fruits that brought “Your Divine All-Holiness” on the land of my long-suffering Motherland. Your spiritual children, by your blessing and under your sensitive guidance, sow blood and tears in Ukraine. They are not just beating, they are already trying to kill those people who remain faithful children of our Mother Church.

I am sure that on this Sunday you will imitate repentance and “ask for forgiveness” from those who, perhaps, once, in some way, were offended in some way. I am not a prophet, but I am sure that you will not receive forgiveness from God, but a curse. Come, “Your Holiness”, to Zadubrovka and first ask for forgiveness from Vasily Grigorievich, whom you tried to kill today. It doesn’t matter that it was not your hands that did it, but the hands of your servants. You will be responsible for this at the Last Judgment! Do not bother in vain to read the prayer of Ephraim the Syrian that “God will give you the ripening of your sins.” Come to us and see your sins with your own eyes.

We will show you crippled people, desecrated temples, desecrated shrines, broken destinies, frightened children. We will show your sins in abundance. You will see with your own eyes all the evil that has brought the believers in my country. God is your judge. But I am sure of one thing – you will not receive any forgiveness and mercy until the crippled sixty-three-year-old Vasily Grigorievich forgives you, until you are forgiven by the children who have suffered because of you, until my companions, faithful children of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, forgive you. caused so much grief and whose blood is now shed. And until you deeply realized all the evil that you brought into this world, do not bother to arrange a hypocritical performance called “The Rite of Forgiveness”,” wrote the hierarch.