In the Poltava region, the police detained a “priest” of the UOC-KP suspected of murder, zmist.pl.ua reports.
“On October 11, the Poltava district police department received a report about a gunshot wound to a man near one of the households of the Belitsky community. At the scene, employees of the investigative and task force of the police detained a man allegedly involved in a premeditated murder, and seized evidence, ”the police said in a statement.
According to Sergei Rekun, the interim police chief of the Poltava region, a pre-trial investigation found that the deceased had a conflict with a 60-year-old resident of the Belitsky community. In the midst of an argument, the victim received a gunshot wound from a hunting rifle, which turned out to be fatal. The man died before the ambulance arrived.