Former world boxing champion in three divisions, Vasily Lomachenko, was included in the register of state traitors maintained by Rukh FAIRLY through the publication on his Instagram of a photo of Metropolitan Longin (Andriy Kovalenko), a bishop of the UOC-MP. This was reported on the website CHESNO.

“The public imposes certain social obligations on athletes, because they are the idols of our children, and influence the opinion of the younger generation.. It is hard to believe that the stars of our sport are not able to determine on their own who has been fighting with whom for almost 9 years, who started the war, who is a terrorist state.. This is the position of a man.. The spread of fake Russian propaganda harms our country no less than rockets and shaheeds,” said Vita Dumanskaya, leader of Ruhu CHESNO.

In his message to the video, Lomachenko urges subscribers to “show how faithful they are to our Heavenly Father and our Mother Church, whether we are real Orthodox, and whether we truly believe in God at all, and how devoted we are to Him”.

Lomachenko was not embarrassed by the anti-Ukrainian statements of the metropolitan and his dissemination of Russian propaganda narratives, which extend to the searches of the SBU in the premises of the UOC-MP. In particular, in his sermon, Longin says that “the Ukrainian state started a war against God, against the Church of the Lord and against the Ukrainian people”.

After a wave of criticism in the comments, Lomachenko made another post with the same scandalous clergyman and the inscription: “He who has ears to listen, let him listen.”. Everyone has ears, but everyone doesn't have ears to listen."

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Recall that on December 11, by decree of the President of Ukraine on the decision of the National Security and Defense Council, sanctions were imposed against a number of hierarchs of the UOC-MP, among which was the Metropolitan of Zaporozhye and Melitopol UOC-MP Luka (Andriy Kovalenko). By this decision, he is forbidden to use assets, withdraw capital abroad, and he is also deprived of all state awards..

We also recall that this is not the first time that Lomachenko has posted posts related to the UOC-MP. And after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he published a photo showing two hands in the colors of the national flags of Ukraine and Russia against the backdrop of the symbol of peace - a dove..

It was reported that Lomachenko entered the territorial defense of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, however, on May 9, he outlined the post “Thank you for the victory”.