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Russian orthodox priests tortured Ukrainian POWs. Filaret popular religious figure in Ukraine

Excerpt of remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Canada, 30 October 2015. Issue of religion in Ukraine. Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate on the rise, Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate (Українська Православна Церква - Московский патриархат) on the decline; Russian orthodox priests have helped pro-Russian seperatists, have tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war. Patriarch Filaret (Патріарх Філарет, Українська православна церква - Київського патріархату (УПЦ КП)) is the most popular religious leader in every region of Ukraine Power and influence over the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Instanbul (Constantinople), Autocephaly Taping location courtesy of St. Vladimir Institute http://www.stvladimir.ca This video was not sponsored Video by UkeTube Ukrainian Video http://www.rferl.org/content/ukrainia... August 19, 2015 Ukrainian 'Cyborg': 'They Tried To Break Me, But It Didn't Work' by Halyna Tereshchuk and Robert Coalson LVIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian paratrooper Oleksandr Mashonkin suffers from constant headaches and stabbing pains throughout his ribcage. He wakes up at home with a start, imagining himself back in the basement of the state security building in the separatist-held city of Donetsk. He still can't believe his nightmare is over. Mashonkin is one of Ukraine's celebrated "cyborgs" -- the handful of soldiers who held out to the end during the brutal battle for Donetsk airport that lasted from September 2014 until January 21, 2015. Earlier this month, Mashonkin, 29, was released after 197 days as a captive of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic -- a “Ukrainian slave,” as he says some separatists put it -- in a swap between the Russian-backed rebels and Kyiv. Mashonkin's unit, the 80th air-mobile brigade, was mobilized on August 13, 2014 -- around the time a rebel offensive that Kyiv says was strongly backed by Russia put government troops under intense pressure. He experienced the hellish fighting in the Donetsk airport buildings, holding out for two weeks against intense shelling and raking gunfire. On January 21, the roof collapsed in the building that Mashonkin was holding. Ukrainian forces withdrew, and Mashonkin and 14 other "cyborgs" were pulled out -- wounded, but alive -- from the twisted steel and concrete. Eventually, the pain stopped -- they were beating us so badly that they were just breaking things that were already broken." -- "Cyborg" Oleksandr Mashonkin ​​The first days of captivity were the worst, Mashonkin says, especially after the "cyborgs" spent a day under the control of the notorious separatist commander Arseny Pavlov, aka Motorola. "They'd take a few of us away and beat them," Mashonkin tells RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. "Then they'd bring them back and take away someone else. This lasted all day. They beat everyone -- with pipes, stools, table legs. They beat us all over -- on the head, all over the body, in the groin." "Eventually, the pain stopped -- they were beating us so badly that they were just breaking things that were already broken." At one point, Mashonkin says, the men were even beaten by an Orthodox priest. "When we were with Motorola, a priest appeared -- apparently from the Moscow Patriarchate -- with a cross. He beat us on the head with that cross. Maybe he thought it would drive out our sins," Mashonkin remembers. "He said that we were not human. A priest in a cassock with a cross. And when the wooden cross broke over someone's head, he came back with a metal one. I've seen priests like that only in horror films."