At the end of May 2025, a video spread in which the priest runs between believers and scatters petals. The signatures claim that such rituals recently are held in the temples of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU). We checked the reliability of such publications.
In the Russian -language segment of social networks, the video became a viral on May 28. The video shows an unusual church service: a man in the vestments of the clergyman runs between the rows of parishioners in the Orthodox Church and shows them with petals. A sunsid female voice reports that the ceremony was held in one of the churches in the Kiev district of Troeshchina. “The most natural Sabbath in the captured temple,” commented on the video in the Telegram channel "Denacification UA"(16,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). With signatures that this video was recently shot in Kyiv, it was also published by Telegram channels "Uncle Glory"(180 000),"Voblya • News"(114,000) and"Baibaiden"(30,000), users X And Instagram.
The authors of viral publications diverge in the opinion of when exactly the video was shot and what is the rite captured on it. Some argue that this year the parishioners of the unnamed Kyiv Church celebrated Easter, others - that this is the usual service in the churches of the PCU, the others are limited to comments like "What is happening there?" Or "The Ukrainian Church is now like that."
“Verified” studied the interiors of several churches of the PCU located in Troeshchina, and did not find coincidences with the decoration of the church, captured on the video. Reverse search on the first frame of the video showed that for the first time it Published As early as May 4, 2024, the Tiktok user with the Userneum @avgihadjipavlou. At the same time, in the original video there is no sunbeam, only the noise of the crowd is heard. The signature for the video says that it shows Easter worship. The hashtags mention not only the holiday, but also the alleged place of filming - the city of Paralymni in Cyprus.
The interior of the temple from the viral video coincides with the decoration of the Church of St. George in the center of this city.
The rite shown in the video is a long -standing Greek Easter tradition. During the morning worship on a passionate Saturday (the original video is published on the eve of Easter), a priest scatters bay leaves or petals among parishioners. In some churches, parishioners are specially noisy during the ritual - for example, they knock on benches or stomp. It is this sound that is heard in the original video. On the network you can find many video From others Cyprus and Greek churches that show this rite.
With a hare voice of a woman talking about Troeshchina, video for the first time Published April 20 on Instagram blogger Anetta Barsivna (@anetta.barsivna). On her page you can find many Similar rollers With comic voice acting. April 22 Blogger Loose Another humorous video with a priest, allegedly shot in one of the temples of Kyiv, but it did not gain such popularity. The original of that video was published Back in September 2024, it shows Pedro III, chapter Palmar Catholic Church - The Spanish religious movement, not recognized by the Vatican.
It remains incomprehensible why the pro-Komrelev Telegram channels paid attention to the comic video of the Kyiv blogger only a month later. May 28 a video Laid The Baibaiden Telegram channel with the signature that Easter was so allegedly in one of the churches of PCU. A tank of the channel was added to the video from Instagram, and it was in this form that it spread further.
Prochremple media and Telegram channels, as well as Russian officials regularly distribute manipulative or misinformation messages in which the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine is characterized as heretical and departed from religious dogmas. "Checked" Disassembled some Similar statements.
Thus, the viral video was shot in 2024 in Cyprus and shows one of the Greek Easter traditions. In April 2025, he was published by a Ukrainian user of social networks, specializing in humorous content. Already in this form, but with misleading comments, he was distributed by the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels a month later.
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