The prayer breakfast was released by these days from Russian captivity Christian priests

At a prayer breakfast in Kiev, the priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Bohdan Gelta and Ivan Levitsky were released from the Russian captivity. They carried the Word of God in Berdyansk, in the parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. On November 16, 2022, the invaders seized them and have been kept in captivity.

“Thanks to the efforts of our team and the mediation of the Vatican, which I am especially grateful, managed to return them to freedom. We believed that it would succeed. We worked for this, ”said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an appeal to the participants and guests of a prayer breakfast. Within this exchange, ten civilian Ukrainians returned home.

Among the liberated are the deputy chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Nariman Jalyal, detained in Crimea in 2021, art expert Olena Pah, who was hostage in Russia for almost six years, and Valery Matyushenko, who was detained in Donets whom he received a disability. It was possible to return home and five Ukrainians who were captured in Belarus and deprived of freedom during 2022-2023.