In October 2024, social networks distributed video recording and photography allegedly taken in one of the Ukrainian temples. We checked whether prayer appears in them.
According to the signature to a short video, it was made in the Holy Trinity Church in Kyiv, and the cost of such a prayer is 10 UAH. The text of the prayer has the words "so that they do not take it to war" and "the safety of our relatives from mobilization." The video and photography were distributed by such Telegram channels as "Two major"(249,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Putin in Telegram"(181 000), Reverse Side of the Medal (151 000), Voblya (142 000) and "Ukraine.ru"(128 000).
“Verified” did not find in authoritative Ukrainian -language sources signs of the distribution of a message about unusual prayer. There is no information about her and on the sites of Ukrainian churches.
Mentioned in the signature for virus video Holy Trinity Temple in Troeshchina It really exists in Kyiv, but it does not belong to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (its parishioners called Most of the believers of the Ukrainians), and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, previously subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate. At the same time, in the upper part of the sheet with a prayer in a viral photo there is a logo of PCU, and not the UOC.
The pattern around the perimeter of prayer, apparently, was Take from one of the stock sites, where it is called the "frame for a photo with the temple." In the upper part of the dome template was replaced with the PCU logo.
The text of the prayer is written in Ukrainian, although in temples The UOC is no less common Church Slavonic. However, in prayers as on Ukrainian language, and on Church Slavonic The letter "z" is printed by the Cyrillic alphabet, and in prayer from viral posts it is more like Latin Z.
In prayer, “warriors who give their lives in vain are mentioned, but the public rhetoric of the Kyiv churches regarding the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine completely other. For example, in another prayer, placed On the official website of one of the Kyiv churches of PCU, on the contrary, it is said that the soldiers "gave their lives in the battle for the independence of the Ukrainian land, because they protected the Orthodox faith from enemies."
According to TGSTAT, the first mentioned video (a little later appeared and similar photo) October 15 at 17:35 Moscow time posted a pro-Russian Telegram channel Reverse Side of the Medal. He repeatedly Facing In the analysis of "tested" as one of the sources of the spread of misinformation.
Thus, there are no reliable evidence that in the Ukrainian churches (both related to the PCU and included in the UOC) parishioners are offered to purchase prayers against mobilization, captured in viral photos and videos.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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