A prior of a Christian Orthodox church, Volodymyr Maretsky, who is accused by the Ukrainian security authorities of organizing armed attacks on polling stations in the Novoaidar district in Luhansk region on May 26, has been remanded for two months.
“He has been remanded into custody for two months with no option of
having it replaced with bail,” spokesman for the Kharkiv regional office
of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Vladyslav Abdula told
Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.
Thirteen people were arrested following an armed attack on several
polling stations in the Novoaidar district of the Luhansk region on May
26. They included the group leader Maretsky, who is “an activist of the
Don-based Cossack community” and heads a local church of the Moscow
Patriarchate, as well as B. Saklakov, an employee of a prosecutor’s
office in Dzhankoi.
