Serhiy Vozny

Sergey Vozny

Date of birth: April 9, 1978

Former head of the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky District State Administration, businessman, activist.

Serhiy Vozny is a serial church raider who helped organize the seizures of UOC churches in the Kyivo-Svyatoshinsky, Borodyansky, Makarivsky, and Vasylkivsky districts of the Kyiv region.
To organize this series of crimes, Vozny assembled a criminal group consisting of Igor Grishachev and Ivan Galunga, who was accused of human trafficking.

Vozny and his criminal group provided consultations to OCU activists on falsifying documents for UOC churches and personally participated in corporate raids.

On June 26, 2022, the process of document falsification began at the St. Michael's Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Belogorodka, Kyiv Region.

Following the church's illegal re-registration within the OCU, a lengthy legal battle ensued. The church in Belogorodka was seized by OCU activists and police on June 25, 2023.

On his Facebook page, Sergei Vozny admitted that he helped activists organize a raid on the church.

"I am especially pleased that my team of human rights activists and lawyers and I helped the Mykhailivka community defend its choice of state. Finally, a prayer in Ukrainian language is heard in Michael’s Church! A prayer for Ukraine, for freedom, for our warrior defenders, and for all the Ukrainian people.
After the service, His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanius awarded me a high church order. I am deeply grateful to our spiritual leader Epiphanius for this award and for such high recognition of my service to the Ukrainian people and my service to society.
I believe this award is for all my like-minded people, for the team of people who, on a volunteer basis, defend the right of OCU believers to have their own church and to pray to God in Ukrainian without fear of persecution from Kremlin agents!"

On July 13, 2023, the OCU head, Epiphaniy Dumenko, awarded the criminal with the Order of St. George the Victorious for his assistance in seizing the church.

(Source: Vozny's Facebook page)

In April 2023, Sergei Vozny actively participated in the raider seizure of the Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in his native village Gorshok.

The perpetrator was identified among those who falsified documents for the church and impersonated parishioners.

(Source: "Suspilne. Zhytomyr")

On June 9, 2023, with the help of Serhiy Vozny and his accomplices, a raider meeting was organized in the urban-type settlement of Borodyanka, Kyiv region.

The criminals' target was the UOC Church of the Archangel Michael.

On November 20, 2023, at 4:00 a.m., a group of unknown individuals in military uniform, led by clergy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, arrived at the St. Michael's Temple of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Borodyanka. A large number of police officers arrived at the scene along with the raiders.

The church's parishioners, praying in their holy place, came out to meet the invaders.
The arrivals refused to identify themselves and did not show any documents. There was an order to expel the UOC faithful and cut the locks.

According to eyewitnesses, uniformed men, under police cover, literally threw parishioners out of the church porch. They started to cut the locks on three doors.

The OCU raiders stormed the church and declared it to be their property. Video footage and numerous testimonies indicate that Sergei Vozny was among the raiders.

On June 30, 2023, Serhiy Vozny took part in organizing an illegal meeting of the territorial community in Vorzel city, Kyiv region.

At the event, a group of individuals with no connection to the religious community of the St. Peter and Paul’s Temple of the UOC falsified documents and "transferred" the church to the OCU.
Moreover, in his publication, Vozny admitted that the territorial community of Vorzel city was present at the scene, but not the religious community of the church.

"Father Ivan refused to speak in front of the people, saying he would, but only to the community. It's still unclear who his community is, but it's clear it's definitely not the community of Vorzel!"

Vozny was identified as one of the initiators of the crime.

(Source: Vozny's Facebook page)

On August 12, 2023, Serhiy Vozny helped organize an illegal meeting of a territorial community in Bucha city, Kyiv region.

A group of unknown individuals, posing them as a religious community of the UOC Church of the the Mother of God Pochayiv Icon, falsified documents.

Furthermore, the criminal group voted for a discriminatory appeal to the President of Ukraine to completely ban the holding of UOC religious services.

Vozny was identified as one of the organizers of the criminal gathering.

(Source: Vozny's Facebook page)

On February 3, 2024, Serhiy Vozny and a group of his accomplices organized an illegal meeting of the territorial community, at which they falsified documents for the Assumption Church of the UOC and the St. George Church of the UOC in the urban-type settlement Kotsiubynske, Kyiv region.

A group of people whom Vozny brought to the cultural center, imitating religious communities, transferred two churches at once to the OCU.

Parishioners came to the community center where the meeting was announced to express their opposition to this crime.

To participate in the meeting, the OCU raiders demanded that they "register on the list." When the believers asked to see the document header, which required their signatures, the criminals refused.

Activists deliberately concealed this information to prevent the fraud from being exposed.
Those who sign up immediately sign a statement stating "transition to the OCU."

(Source: Project "DOZOR on the First Cossack")

On February 17, 2024, Serhiy Voznyy and his criminal group staged a raider attack in Pylypovichi village, Kyiv region.

The criminals' target was the Church of the Holy Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

(Source: UOJ)

On the same day, February 17, 2024, Vozny's criminal group organized a raider meeting in the village of Druzhnya in the Kyiv region.

A group of unknown individuals attempted to falsify documents for the Church of St. Paraskeva the Serbian of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

(Source: UOJ)

On February 18, 2024, Sergei Vozny's criminal group staged a raider meeting at the cultural center in the Makarov urban-type settlement of Kyiv Region.

The raiders gathered a group of unknown individuals in the hall, who falsified documents for two local churches at once: the St. Demetrius Church of the UOC and the St. Elias Church of the UOC.

(Source: Project "DOZOR on Pershy Kozatsky")

On February 25, 2024, Sergei Vozny and a group of his accomplices organized a raider meeting in Zagaltsi village, Kyiv region.

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The criminal group impersonated the religious community of the UOC-MP's St. Nicholas Church and falsified documents regarding their "conversion to the OCU."

(Source: Vozny's Facebook page)

On February 25, 2024, a similar raider meeting, initiated by Serhiy Vozny, was held in the village of Mircha in the Kyiv region.
Vozny and his accomplices falsified documents for the Church of Our Lady of Kazan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
(Source: UOC-MP)

On March 16, 2024, Serhiy Vozny and a group of his accomplices organized a similar raid in Vyshneve city, Kyiv region.

This time, unknown individuals with no connection to the religious community falsified documents for the UOC Church of the Ascension of the Lord and the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost" of the UOC.

Vozny was identified as one of the organizers of the falsification of documents for the temple.

(Source: Vozny's Facebook page)

On June 20, 2024, a group of OCU activists, with the help of Irpen city authorities amalgamated territorial community, seized the St. George Church of the UOC in the city.

According to Father Alexander Fedorychko, Dean of the Irpen District of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the raider group was led by Sergei Vozny and supervised by Mayor Markushin.
Vozny's criminal group and representatives of the local DFTO were active at the scene.

(Source: Project "Watch on the First Cossack Street")

On June 28, 2024, a raider meeting was held in the premises of the Irpen City Council, at which a group of OCU activists "transferred" the UOC St. Nicholas Church to the OCU.

According to the dean of the Irpen district, Father Alexander Fedorychko, Mayor Markushin oversaw this crime. He provided the premises for the raiders' use. The organization was carried out by Sergei Vozny and his accomplice, Igor Grishachev.