On February 27, in the Kyiv region, Russian invaders shot a chaplain of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Maksym Kozachyna.
This was reported by religious scholar Andriy Smyrnov on his Facebook page.
"Eternal memory eternal to him!
Maksym Kozachyna was born in 1979 in Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region.
In 1996, he graduated from a secondary school and entered the Kyiv Theological Seminary of the UOC-KP, from which he graduated in 2000.
Since 2000, he served as rector of the parish of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos of Rozvazhniv village, Ivankovsky District of the Kyiv region," the note says.
The invaders shot the priest of the OCU in a car at the exit from the village. They don't allow taking the body.