Yermak: Ukraine will rid the church of Moscow's influence and Russian special services

Yermak: Ukraine will rid the church of Moscow's influence and Russian special services

Kyiv  •  UNN

August 18 2024, 02:40 PM • 82302 views

The head of the OP said that Kyiv would rid the church of Moscow's influence. Yermak emphasized the inadmissibility of threats from the defenders of the UOC-MP and recalled the AUCCRO's support for the ban on religious organizations associated with the Russian Federation.

For russia, the church has always been a tool of security forces and special services. therefore, Kyiv will do everything to neutralize the influence of Russia on the regalia in Ukraine, said the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, reports UNN.

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The church in Ukraine will be free from Moscow's influence. Since the Soviet era, the church in Russia and for Russia has been the territory and ears of their special services. Russia today is a country that destroys churches in Ukraine. For them, there is no God, no faith. It is a screen for murder and violence

- Yermak said. 

He also emphasized the inadmissibility of threats and intimidation by those who are willing to defend the influence of the Moscow church.

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When in Ukraine today there are those who are ready to defend the influence of the Moscow church, beat people, threaten them on social networks, having the status of a people's deputy, this is not normal. This is not about freedom, but about something else. We shouldn't do this - our society has already passed all the tests for unity. There will be no church split here. And there will be no threats either

- the head of the Presidential Office said in a statement. 

Recall

The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) supported the legislative initiative of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ban the activities of religious organizations associated with the aggressor country.