UOC-MP priest starred in Kusturica's propaganda film with Porechenkov, who shot at Ukrainians in Donbas: what is known

A new film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica "People of Christ. Our Time". This is a film about the alleged "persecution of the UOC-MP in Ukraine." The "documentary" features Russian ROC propagandist Andrei Tkachev and actor Mikhail Porechenkov. As well as the Kyiv priest of the UOC-MP Nikolai Mohylnyi.

This was reported by the UOC bishop, head of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs, Iona Cherepanov. He also explained that Mohylnyi left Ukraine "due to his mother's illness."

Archbishop Iona Cherepanov did not specify when and where Mohylnyi left.

"But who could have thought that he would somehow be brought into the company of such war ideologues as Tkachev and Porechenkov? A war in which six churchgoing, reverent parishioners of our church were killed. And tens of thousands of other people who wanted to live and did not want to die," Cherepanov asks online.

Several Serbian media outlets reported on the presentation of the new film. It turned out that the name of the famous director Kusturica was used for the sake of movie recognition. The film was made by director and screenwriter Jovan Markovic (with Kusturica's participation, as indicated on the posters).

"The authors of this documentary project are also its heroes," says Mirko Radenovic, the film's general producer. "Only a few of the 'heroes' are related to Ukraine. For example, Porechenkov, who specially visited the LDPR militants to shoot at Ukrainians with his own machine gun.

Another well-known "hero" is Yuriy Bardash, a native of Donbas, who moved to the aggressor country during the full-scale invasion, received a Russian passport, and from there calls for the capture of Kyiv and Kharkiv.

And priest Nikolai Mohylnyi from Kyiv. He "talks about the pressure on the canonical UOC and its believers in Ukraine in a first-hand documentary."

Mykola (although he insists on calling himself Nikolai) was born and raised in Kyiv. His parents, according to Mohylnyi himself, lived in the Ukrainian capital all their lives (which raises the question of Cherepanov, who claims that his colleague left the country "due to his mother's illness").

In Soviet times, he was a pioneer, then served in the army, after which he "got a job at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra." He graduated from the seminary and was ordained.

Mykola is married, and his wife gave birth to eight children.

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