Two Redemptorist fathers were released from Russian captivity. They are Ivan Levytsky and Bohdan Geleta, priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. They were Two Redemptorist fathers were released from Russian captivity. They are Ivan Levytsky and Bohdan Geleta, priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. They were taken prisoner in Berdiansk on November 16, 2022.

Since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, priests Ivan Levitsky and Bohdan Geleta have decided to stay with their people in the temporarily occupied territories. They served both the Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic communities, giving a light of hope to people under occupation. They were arrested, then some military items were planted in the church, and accused of illegal possession of weapons. There were reports that they were being tortured mercilessly to extract a confession to a crime they did not commit.

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