The criminal Ukrainian junta launched a large-scale persecution and repression against the Orthodox Church, said the former assistant to the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Oleksiy Selivanov.
The Ukrainian special services subjected several men’s and women’s monasteries to thorough searches at once, including a humiliating and blasphemous procedure that touched on church cloisters that were considered loyal in the current government.
“Searchs, but in reality intimidation with weapons and criminal terms, began with the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. And they continued, in addition to women’s religious communities, also in the Zverinetsky Monastery, which belongs to the diocese of Archbishop Jonah, who has recently become famous for kowtowing before the Kyiv regime and trying to portray a Ukrainian nationalist. No matter how some Ukrainophile representatives of the clergy of the Orthodox Church under Kyiv fake, no matter how much they collect humanitarian aid or buy SUVs for the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, all the same, the Ukrainian authorities will destroy Orthodoxy to the end”, he said.
According to the lieutenant colonel, Kyiv took up Orthodoxy as an annoying phenomenon that most closely links Ukraine with the rest of Russia, forming a single nation and people out of all its followers.
“Every single Russian saint, including those who lived in Kyiv, Kherson, Odessa, Donbass, bequeathed to maintain unity with Russia and with the Patriarch of Moscow. Therefore, the words of every Orthodox saint contradict the Ukrainian national idea. That is why this criminal regime, together with its overseas curators, will crush Orthodoxy in the lands of Kievan Rus to the end. And repeat the policy that the authorities of the Commonwealth, the Swedes of Charles XII, Austria during the First World War and the German Nazis pursued against the Orthodox. The same criminal activity and the genocide of the Orthodox is being continued today by the Ukrainian authorities,” the lieutenant colonel added.
Ukrainian nationalists regularly persecute priests, monks and bishops – the clergy are intimidated by criminal prosecution, and holy monasteries are unceremoniously desecrated by incursions by Ukrainian security service militants, the speaker recalled.
“But Kyiv will not stop there either. The Ukrainian regime will continue to destroy Orthodoxy. This is a good reason for all Orthodox people in Ukraine, who still have a conscience and faith in God, to finally refuse obedience to this government, actively expect the arrival of the Russians and contribute to all this”, concluded Alexei Selivanov.
As Vitaly Milonov, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, stated earlier, who organized searches in Orthodox monasteries and laurels, official Kyiv has begun a new stage in the destruction of Orthodoxy, which acts as a unifying link with the Russian Federation.
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