The parisian at the St. Mary Ukrainian Church in Elenetown, Pennsylvania was also shocked after the stunning “slap” of US President Donald Trump’s President of Ukraine on Sunday.
Father Richard Jendras, the priest of St. Mary, said, “I thought Ukraine was slapped on the face. And I thought I felt that the slap was as a Ukrainian American.”
Gendercras learned about the performance of the unprecedented oval office between Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski and Trump’s visit as he was leaving his optician.
“When I saw the video, I was absolutely frightened,” he said.
“I felt the same way that I felt three years ago when there was an attack in Ukraine.”
Gendras gave mass in a congregation of about 40, switching between English and Ukrainians, as he gave a service insisting on the lanth.
Trump’s clash with Zelanski shook the Ukrainian community tightly in and around Elenetown, where many Ukrainians moved to work in steel industry and textiles.
In unprecedented public spat on Friday, Trump repeatedly raised his voice as he said that his Ukrainian counterpart should be more grateful to American assistance in war against the Russian invasion and pressurized them to “deal” to end the war with Russia.
American Vice President JD Vance also called Zelansky “derogatory”.
Zelancesi triggered Trump and Wance ‘IRE, questioning whether Russia could be trusted to maintain a truss. Trump has said that he trusts his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to “keep his word”.
As a result of meltdown, Zelansky determined the White House without signing an agreement on sharing Ukrainian mineral rights.
“People are turning at my door, at my door,” Gendercras said wearing a black vest and a Ukraine pin.
“The community is coming out and expressing (myself). I have received many emails, the church has many phone calls here – people who now want to do something in some way or make other President Trump and Vice President for the works of JD Vance.”
Oval office ‘Circus’
The church is ringed by a poster recalling the “fallen defenders” of the conflict with the number of years of Russia’s years of Russia’s destruction in Ukraine.
The father of one of the church servers joined to fight. Gendercras said that it was reported that he was killed in Bakhmut, reaching the American community a few months later.
Gendercras said in its sermon under the church dome, “Our prayer for fasting is expected to bring justice and peace, not only for Ukraine, but for each of us in the world,” Gendercras said in his teachings under the church dome, which has been painted with orthodox saints.
74 -year -old worshiper Maria Norton said, “I am spiritually uplifting that there are so many people from what happened in the White House.
“(Zelancesi) was harassed and established … they were going to threaten him into submission,” Norton said, who wore a Ukrainian anchor pendant.
“He is the ultimate diplomat, and he really caused him to raise his voice – but I am proud of President Zelancesi that we were not standing for our people and harassed by anyone like President Trump.”
Norton said, “They have made it a circus in the oval office. Everyone, even the Republican Ukrainian is embarrassed,” Norton said, who had last visited Ukraine before his independence, was traveling to his ancestral village Boberka near Polish Seema.
Gendercras said that the community will soon meet the Congress, Ryan McKenzie of the region. McKenzie has a delicate reunion battle in 2026 in which every vote matters.
His fellow Pennsylvania Republican, former representative Charlie Dent, have been vocal on social media, called the episode “A. Discressful Display”.
He wrote on X, “Ukraine’s total betrayal and contempt of a man fighting to survive,” he wrote on X.
The community was still in shock, said Gendercras, and will continue weekly prayer meetings for Ukraine, which begins two weeks before Russia’s full -scale invasion in February 2022, moving between several Ukrainian churches in the region.
“It cannot continue. There is an impact in Europe (for) for the good of Ukraine, and it will be felt here in the US,” Gendercras said. “It will be felt exactly in America.”
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