Relatives of the 74-year-old priest who died on the highway near Fanipal say he wasn't crossing the road but was saving an injured dog
On April 21, 74-year-old priest Uladzimir Badyulkin died on the R-1 Minsk — Dzyarzhynsk highway. According to law enforcement, the priest decided to cross the highway a few meters from an underground passage. The man's relatives shared their version of the story on social media.
Uladzimir Badyulkin. Photo: molod-eparchy.by
Uladzimir's daughter wrote that the man was not crossing the road. According to the woman, he simply wanted to do a good deed:
“My father parked in an allowed spot, activating the hazard lights on his car. He went down into the underground passage and exited on the opposite side to rescue an injured dog, which is confirmed by the dashcam recording.”
The woman added that an investigation into this story is currently underway. She refers to the investigator who told her about the discovered dog and asked if her father owned a dog.
Eyewitnesses commented, also stating that there was a dog at the scene. However, accounts of the animal's condition differ: some saw a dog that had been hit by a car, while others recounted that the dog was alive and the priest simply wanted to remove it from the road.
The tragedy occurred on the evening of April 21, on the 23rd kilometer of the R-1 Minsk — Dzyarzhynsk highway. Uladzimir was hit by a 25-year-old girl driving a "Volkswagen" towards Minsk. At the spot where the man died, the road becomes eight lanes wide due to an acceleration lane — meaning if the priest had indeed been crossing the road there, it would have been extremely dangerous.
Uladzimir was laid to rest on April 23 at the Church of the Ascension of the Lord in Fanipal, where the man had served as abbot for 25 years. The Dzyarzhynsk Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 317 of the Criminal Code — violation of traffic rules that negligently caused the death of a person.
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