Overview
- Metropolitan Arseniy was hospitalized from the courtroom with a hypertensive crisis, then returned as the judge proceeded to impose pretrial custody.
- The Security Service of Ukraine detained him again on October 28 shortly after an appellate court released him on 1.5 million hryvnias bail on October 23.
- The new ruling orders 60 days in custody as investigators pursue fresh proceedings linked to alleged disclosures about military movements.
- Church-affiliated outlets report his medicines were confiscated and that he was kept in a cold cell following the re-detention.
- The Russian Orthodox Church and allied rights groups condemned the detention and urged international attention to the case.