Employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office) mobilized a priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Vladimir Glavatsky, who conducted the funeral service for the deceased serviceman. This was announced on his Telegram channel by the UOC priest John Polishchuk, who had also been mobilized earlier.
According to him, the incident occurred in the village of Piryatin in the Rivne region. A week ago, UOC cleric Bogdan Matveev was detained on the last day of a religious procession from Kamianets-Podilskyi to Pochaev.
In Ukraine, clergy are not exempt from general mobilization if they are subject to it by age and health status. However, at the end of 2024, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers allowed the booking of priests of "critically important religious organizations," and in early June, the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience approved a list of more than 7,7 thousand such organizations. Local media immediately noticed that, with a few exceptions, there are no communities and parishes of the canonical UOC, while communities of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and even religious organizations with dubious reputations are widely represented. As explained in the civil service, the decision to include religious organizations in the list of critically important was made on the basis of "special criteria." 
According to TASS materials