{"id":84882,"date":"2022-02-28T00:08:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=84882"},"modified":"2022-02-28T00:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:08:50","slug":"russian-troops-take-ocu-priest-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2022\/02\/28\/russian-troops-take-ocu-priest-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian troops take OCU priest hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">According to the head of the Odesa eparchy, Bishop Afanasiy, the Russian forces have seized a Ukrainian rescue ship, Sapphire, which was set to retrieve the bodies of our soldiers, who had been considered killed in action, from Zmiiniy Island.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For this purpose, the priest of Odesa eparchy Vasyl Vyrozub was also on board the vessel.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is noted that the humanitarian mission was taking place by prior agreement with the Russian side.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, as a result, it turned out that no soldiers were killed on the island, while the Russian military used the situation as an excuse to insidiously lure an unarmed rescue vessel and capture it along with the civilian crew and the OCU priest.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On February 27, at 6:00 p.m., the head of the Odesa eparchy received a message from Archpriest Vasyl Vyrozub that the ship, crew, and representatives of the mission were being taken in an unknown direction.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I appeal to the world community, religious leaders, and all missions to make the incident public and help resolve this outrageous situation,&#8221; Bishop Afanasiy said in his address.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Orthodox Church of Ukraine condemns this cynical incident and demands that Archpriest Vasyl Vyrozub, all crew members, and members of the humanitarian mission be immediately released.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the head of the Odesa eparchy, Bishop Afanasiy, the Russian forces have seized a Ukrainian rescue ship, Sapphire, which was set to retrieve the bodies of our soldiers, who had been considered killed in action, from Zmiiniy Island. For this purpose, the priest of Odesa eparchy Vasyl Vyrozub was also on board the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/zmeiini.jpeg?fit=840%2C740&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}