The brotherhood of the Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra has requested prayers for Metropolitan Arseniy, who remains in a pre-trial detention center in Dnipro, according to a message published on the monastery’s website and reported by the Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Reports indicate the metropolitan’s cell lacks heating, potentially endangering his health due to chronic illnesses exacerbated by detention conditions.
Court officials have denied multiple requests from Arseniy’s legal team to modify his detention arrangements. The court has also rejected defense motions to broadcast proceedings publicly, which lawyers argued would allow for greater transparency regarding the objectivity of the case against the Sviatohirsk Lavra’s Abbot.
The news regarding Arseniy’s deplorable conditions was first published by the Synodal information and educational Department of the UOC.