Why One Brooklyn Priest’s Brother Is Hiding, Fighting in Ukraine

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Currents News Staff

A crowd of people desperate to leave Ukraine, rush through the doors of a train heading west. People are fleeing, worrying they could be the next casualties of a nuclear disaster.

One Brooklyn priest knows all about that – his brother is stuck in Ukraine right now.

Father Sergiy Emanuel, pastor of Guardian Angel Church in Brighton Beach and coordinator of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants for the Diocese of Brooklyn, joined Currents News to discuss what’s happening in his homeland.