On March 18, 2023, during the assault on the Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica in Yurkovtsy, Chernivtsi region, the OCU raiders beat the believers of the UOC to blood, the press service of the Chernivtsi diocese reports.

“Inspired by the blasphemy of Zelensky’s team, supporters of the OCU shed the blood of Christians… There is an assault on the St. Demetrius Church of the UOC in Yurkovtsy: supporters of the OCU tore down the gate, there are wounded among the religious community of the UOC, the police are completely inactive, the temple has not been captured, grinders and generators are ready to saw the doors temple. Remind me how much the 95th quarter pays for hitting a priest in the face, how much it pays for the mutilated Gospel, how much it pays for the spilled blood of a Christian?”

The press service added that the OCU raiders have “the most patriotic slogans and the most shameful cowardice.”