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The funeral of a Ukrainian soldier became the scene of a unusual fight between Orthodox priestsafter the religious of the patriarchate of Moscow tried to hit his counterpart in the Ukrainian Church with the cross he wore around his neck.
The incident was captured on video by one of the participants and quickly went viral.
The priest of the Russian patriarchate, identified as Mykhailo Vasylyuk, attacked the Ukrainian cleric Anatoly Dudko because in his homily he had made comments about Vladimir Putin that angered the Russian.
Dudko allegedly claimed that Putin unleashed the war in Ukraine in part to protect the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church, provoking Vasylyuk approached to attack him.
In the images you can see how the Russian priest first tries to snatch something from Dudko’s neck before hitting him with the cross in his hand. They were the members of the army who separated Vasylyukwhich allowed the regular performance of the funeral service.
According to local media, the funeral was in honor of the Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zinivy, who died near Mykolaiv, in the city of Vinnytsia. Apparently the Ukrainian priest suffered minor injuries because of the altercation.
war victims
According to the latest public estimate of the government of Volodimir Zelensky made last June, so far this war the Ukrainian army has suffered more than 10 thousand dead30,000 wounded and more than 7,000 missing, of which at least 5,000 are estimated to have been captured and are currently held captive by Russia.
In the case of Russia, US intelligence estimates their victims at least 75,000. The more conservative Ukrainian government estimates that it has suffered 40,000 dead soldiers so far.
According to the United Nations, more than 5 thousand civilians died so far in the conflict.
Source: Clarin
