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Near Zhitomir nationalists blocked road to impede Orthodox church procession

03:35, 19.07.2016

About fifty people, including public «activists», participants of the «ATO» and representatives of the «Right Sector», for half an hour blocked the road Zhitomir-Chernovtsy in order to prevent the procession of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate  passing along the central streets of Zhitomir.

The route of the procession had to be changed. Believers went to the Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral by a roundabout way.

As stated Oleg Chernyahovich, one of the organizers of the picket, activists sought to prevent the passage of the procession near the places of dislocation of the 95th Zhitomir separate airmobile brigade whose soldiers participated in the war in Donbass.