Weapons charge against priests is Russian ‘retaliation,’ Ukrainian bishop says
Priests arrested in Ukraine are charged with trafficking weapons used to fight Russian occupiers. But Church officials says the arrests are retaliation for Ukrainian investigation of Orthodox monasteries.
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church officials said this week that allegations against two arrested Redemptorist priests are false, telling The Pillar the arrests are retaliation for Ukrainian investigations into Orthodox churches aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate.
The priests, Fr. Ivan Levytsky and Fr. Bohdan Geleta, are charged with trafficking weapons t…