Metropolitan Feodosiy of Cherkasy, during a sermon published by the press service of the diocese on YouTube, said that in the near future the investigation could hand him a suspicion under Art. 436, part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

“They confirm the article about political unreliability with the following fact. On the website of the Cherkasy diocese, they somewhere below found a link to the website of the Moscow Patriarchate. And although it is impossible to access the website of the Patriarchy through this link, because all the sites that are located in the Russian Federation are blocked. But after all, there was such a fact, which means that Metropolitan Feodosiy is a collaborator, a separatist, and fits under Article 436, part 2, ”said the bishop.

According to the bishop, this is due to the fact that Article 161 “crumbles in their hands. They tell me that in the near future I may be handed a suspicion under this article, and it threatens the suspect with up to 8 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Metropolitan Feodosiy categorically disagrees with the accusations against him.

“Those who know me not only from Cherkasy, ​​but also from Kyiv and throughout my life, everyone knows that I am a fundamentally apolitical person. All my priestly ministry, and I have been serving as a bishop for 12 years, and even before that I was a priest in Kiev for 12 years, I basically instructed myself and all the clergy subordinate to me, the priests in this way – in no case, there should be no politics within the walls of the church must. The Church should unite, not divide,” the hierarch stressed.