Ionafan had initially requested an exchange but withdrew his request within less than a week “Ionafan is not an ordinary metropolitan (although a metropolitan in principle cannot be an average figure) One of the oldest hierarchs of the UOC-MP) a graduate of the Leningrad Theological Academy he headed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra after its return to the church,” the journalist said Metropolitan of Bila Tserkva of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Yevstratiy (Zorya) During the searches of the Tulchyn diocese of the UOC-MP the Security Service of Ukraine came across numerous Russian propaganda materials – leaflets “Authorities of Russia,” “Decree of the President of Russia on the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation,” “Donbass – Russia,” as well as the work “Hymn-prayer for Russia,” authored by the metropolitan himself Ionafan was sentenced to 5 years in prison President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suspended the clergyman’s citizenship the appeals court upheld the first-instance court’s verdict unchanged The metropolitan refused the exchange because he did not consider himself a prisoner of war [email protected] [email protected] FB: @uwcongress Russian troops attacked Vinnytsia region with kamikaze drones on the night of March 15 Police showed a video from the scene of the attack and his 53-year-old wife died in the hospital Their 26-year-old son was rescued from the rubble He is currently receiving medical care," the statement says Also in Tulchyn district of Vinnytsia region a car with two boys aged 16 and 17 was damaged Russian troops attacked Ukraine again using kamikaze drones one of the drones hit a residential building in the Vinnytsia region Initially, three people were reported injured and taken to the hospital. Soon it became known that four were injured and one killed. On March 15, the number of victims increased. Later, the Ukrainian Air Force clarified that Russia had launched a combined attack on Ukraine, using not only drones but also missiles. At the same time, Ukrainian air defense shot down 27 of the 27 Russian drones.