for closing churches, our own, well, at that time we, the children of the underground persecuted church , looked at it, well, really with horror, and when ukraine became independent, this independence began to demand certain changes, we all remember today we know the term decommunization, that's how it is in western ukraine. began to happen spontaneously, that fall of lenin happened back in the 90s, here, but unfortunately, central-eastern-southern ukraine lived according to other rhythms, and that's when the whole neo-colonial face of the russian government and the face of the moscow patriarchy in ukraine. then the ukrainian people

demanded decommunization, even of moscow orthodoxy on the territory of ukraine. i don't want to go further into the analysis of these processes, because i can be accused of meddling in internal orthodox events, but these are more political events, an ordinary citizen of ukraine at a certain moment said to himself, enough is enough. only we can be fooled, and it is obvious that today the ukrainian state feels its duty, in particular in the conditions of a full-scale invasion, to take care of state security, even when it comes to threats to state security, which, er, come from the bosom of followers of moscow orthodoxy in ukraine, so i think we all ... should be honest, honest

before our own conscience, before by god, and before the ukrainian people. if we really seek god and want to live a spiritual life, then this will be the road to liberation, to freedom, even to the decommunization of the church, even to those new demands that today's ukrainian believers are making for their spiritual years. i can say no only about the believers of the orthodox churches, but also about the believers of our church, protestants and other churches, that is, we want to be a free people, and the church, as a medium of liberation here, must fulfill its mission in new historical circumstances. you know, i remember such two moments. who was a witness in 90 there

, in my opinion, it was the first or what year, somewhere at the very beginning of independence, alexei came to the second, in my opinion, and then he was the head of the russian church and he was on the black volga and people were shouting out the moscow priest, that’s one thing by the way, i extinguished the period of independence, there was no kravchuk oil, that was one thing, because i went to all these meetings before the supreme council, but there was a moscow priest and he was riding such a black volga and people were chasing him. in the center of kyiv, and they couldn't escape, there was such a cavalcade of these cars, and they you, that is, people chased the moscow pope, it was the beginning of the 90s, and then i remember 2000, god knows what year, when yanukovych was the president, when kirill arrived, he was there, and it was such a golden crowd walks through the center of kyiv, specifically the moscow priest. during this time, the moscow church managed to plant and impose itself so much that from the time when it was chased away, they then turned into a church that... went from the volodymyr

hill, there was cyril in front and all that, and no one could do anything , they seem to have reigned here, but you see, now we are reaching the time when they actually end their history in ukraine, the most important thing here is that i would like your advice, i understand that this may not be your flock now, it may be yours flock, for people who do not understand much, perhaps in politics, in state security, in danger from this church, well, i say it is ukrainian, but we do not know there with moscow, they are not with moscow. so how do you briefly and simply explain to people why you don't need the moscow word? i think that our citizens of ukraine should feel responsible for their church, and for what you hear, probably also, and why you believe, if you in... feel responsible

for your church, then that church will be able to change . i can proudly say about active ukrainian laity. of the catholic church, and we are happy that we, as a church, are changing, we are growing, we are looking for new ways, new forms, how to be a church, how to serve god and people, in new circumstances, we are happy to have wise, active, conscious, responsible lay people in our church who can be relied upon. and today, the ukrainian greek-catholic church is not some cold hierarchical structure, it is a living network community, which today covers many countries

of the world with that network of presence, this is what we would very much like with our experience church life to share, even with our orthodox." glorious brothers, do not be afraid, do not be afraid, be active, your fathers cannot be your slave owners, do not be slavish in front of spiritual officials, be able to be open, free, only then you will be able to change that church, children, which you consider yourself to be. i think that lay people, ordinary orthodox believers, can be a catalyst for changes in these churches today. unfortunately, it so happened that russia tried

to subdue those post-soviet countries with help corruption, the same thing happened in ukraine, they believed that it was political corruption. financing of various kinds of pro-russian political organizations and movements, which were engaged in the restoration of various kinds of historical so -called events, this was soft power, the kind of soft power with which they wanted to colonize anew, including ukraine, and here we saw that, so , the moscow patriarchate very actively began to feel itself. the head of this entire corrupt system. we see that there has been a merger of corrupt secular power and church power in russia. this symphony, she acquired such, well, finally, i would say,

hideous forms of fusion of the throne and the throne, it led to the final loss of the moral authority of the same church, even in russia. society and it was projected as a model of state-church relations for ukraine, it was about its moscow orthodoxy as a state church, and we saw how moscow politicians behaved and behave today in relation to this type of church existence, in particular. also and in ukraine, and here are all those triumphal bosses, you know, the ones you mention, and it has already begun to fill everyone's mind, eh, i would like us to remember one such delicate reality today, today a huge

number of faithful of the moscow patriarchate feel betrayed by their church, i talk to many of them, they feel... that the , who was supposed to be their father, became their enemy, the one who was supposed to take care of them, finally betrayed them, this does not mean that those betrayed, er, wounded people will immediately look for another denomination, er, leave to one or another of her churches. i have a feeling now that many of those wounded, aching hearts... they will leave the church altogether, and ukraine may face a very powerful wave of secularization, that is , a new kind of godlessness and atheism, exactly as happened in tsarist russia after, after, that is, the overthrow of the tsarist throne, and

at the same time and power or force over the people of n. of the orthodox church, i would like you to clarify for our viewers the issue of behavior, well, here i will reduce the measure. statement of the actions of the head of the vatican, the head of the roman catholic church and the person who sits on the holy throne, because not all people understand why there seems to be peace here, there is somehow not such an unequivocal statement regarding the condemnation of the actions of russia or, again , the same moscow church, here there is some attempt to unite a certain ukrainian man and a russian woman or to do something like that. such a flash mob, which seemed to give some idea of ​​reconciliation, and

people think, is it for us or for or for whom, or how to explain it, well, as they say, just explain why, what is the difficulty today, perhaps the roles , which is performed by her pope, francis, and, uh, maybe the things that we don't see, but he also does, and they are very important, and in the humanitarian field. sphere and important, well, the whole complexity, perhaps today, of the role and mission, uh, of the most holy father of the pope of rome, as a universal bishop, is how to be a preacher of peace at a time when uh, the third world war is starting in particles, this is his words, that is, how today er, let's say, be the one who should serve... reconciliation between peoples, when peoples start to fight with each other, this is the complexity, maybe a certain

tension between the local and the universal, it is obvious that we feel , which is here in ukraine many problems of the whole world look different, we understand today that reconciliation. between the aggressor and the victim, it is possible only when that aggressor stops, when the world community condemns him, when that aggressor is forced to compensate for the harm caused, only then can there be a dialogue, a dialogue that, let's say, someday... i hope he culminates in what we call healing of wounds, and hence reconciliation.

that's why these are all very difficult questions, er, but let's let the pope be the pope, and let us ukrainians be ukrainians. i think everyone everything will be understood by us, including when we really win in the battle we are leading. because perhaps it is our mission to unmask the devil who attacks us today, to unmask that moscow, which today is no longer the bearer of high culture, but the bearer of the latest genocidal ideology, because unfortunately, today the world has the same danger in which was, let 's say, before the beginning of the second world war, let's

remember that time in europe, everyone wanted to prevent the escalation of the world conflict, do you remember chamberlain, who was so happy with that piece of paper, they say they satisfied the aggressor, gave him a part of some country there, and now he has already released his appetites for... then the average european associated the word germany with high culture, philosophy , music, and the nazis were in power, and then at the end of the second world war, everyone asked themselves with horror how it was possible that such a civilized and cultured people committed the crimes of ee... auschwitz and committed

genocide against the entire people, which one we call today the holocaust. the same is happening today in relation to russia. russia, in particular after the collapse of the soviet union, invested huge amounts of money in order to spread the illusion of its high culture. today, when someone is looking for an expert on russia will always come across an adept who was raised on the illusion of the greatness of russian culture. and that's why whenever they hear about russia today, they will, first of all, boil down to the categories of their own illusory thinking, without asking themselves what is really happening in russia. it is real in russia today there is, i would say, such a neo-colonial genocidal regime that

has nothing in common with the examples of high russian culture, from dostoevsky. other so-called classics of russian culture, according to this culture, there are no more today, and this is a certain shock that the west may be experiencing today, all those who consider themselves experts, and this is our, perhaps historical role, it is to expose everything, to warn the world, to close it in the face of this great danger, so i hope we will do our... part, we will win, and then all of us will understand, i am convinced that the lord god today is always on the side of the one who is a victim of unjust aggression, that the lord god is near, near us, you said that god

is near us, but i would like to ask this question actually, for sure and to conclude, because many people ask today, where is god and why is this with us, and how jesus was asked whether his parents sinned or he, why is he blind, and so people will ask, so who sinned, articles are written, intelligent people they write, explain why we deserved this war in quotation marks, and say, well what, who, who sinned, but i would like you to say your word, here it is important for people to understand where god is, if i don't see him, i don't feel him, all this is happening, and why should we do this? well, to the end of this question, we will answer, maybe at the end of the story, when the whole process will take place, then we will see everything in its entirety, but now christians have the key to interpret this reality, why? because we believe in a suffering god, not

the god who is somewhere far away, somewhere in the heavens, in his kingdom. no, but god who became man. we believe in the son of god, who entered human history, took on a human body and voluntarily went to the cross. that is, today we christians see the suffering christ in the suffering of every person. i want to share mine like this, maybe my own. spiritual experience, you know, when i visit our wounded boys or even civilians who were injured as a result of the bombings, you know, well, it's just some kind of truly awe-inspiring awe at the suffering of people in ukraine, who have

a real presence of god, or did i catch myself that way in my mind, you know, seeing those wounds... me i say to myself: jesus, it is you, i see you in this person. and indeed, today christ is suffering in the body of the suffering ukrainian people. therefore , those pains and sufferings of our savior in the body of a suffering ukrainian motivate christians to acts of mercy. calling we are not just to honor human suffering, but to protect human life, that is, this is some kind of, i would say, truly religious motive of all our social service, all that we do to protect, save human

life in the name of god, it is not kind of familiar i would say... i said philanthropy, and this is really diakonia, that is, service, service to god, through service to a person in need, and this is an experience, not only my personal, but the whole of our church, you know, no one has ever asked her in our communities, in our parishes, which church do you go to, what language do you speak, when we see... a person in need, a wounded person, a refugee, a person who needs to be helped, warmed, or maybe even advised, and then in life, to act in life, here, and this is the secret of stability, i am convinced that here it is

the non-abstract, but very concrete presence of god among us, in particular because of, because of, his suffering in the wounds of ukraine, this is a very, very deep, i would say, foundation for the proclamation of christ. his gospel of christ today in ukraine. that is why we say: "god is with us." god is always in the one who suffers. there is such an early christian sermon from the second century, even from the persecuted church, which said, says that, er, christ is killed in everyone, who will be killed until the end of the world. christ was present. in joseph, who in egypt sold, christ was present in abel, who was killed by cain in the old testament, and today he is present in every person who

is in need, weak, that is why we read in the gospel from matthew about the terrible judgment, says christ, what you did it to one of my least, you did it to me, then... therefore, we christians know where god is present, we see him, and we want to serve the lord god and our long-suffering but heroic people. we thank you, bishop sviatoslav was with us, the head of the ukrainian greek catholic church, and i also congratulate you with on the independence day of ukraine and your entire christian community, i ask you to stay with the espresso tv channel, it will be interesting from now on. red bull, salzburg, dynamo, kyiv,

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17-year-old sashka ivanov from the donetsk region. the boy went missing in february 2022. before the war, sashko was in one of the boarding schools in the city of donetsk, and on february 20, 2022, four days before the start of the full-scale invasion, all the inmates of this boarding school were allegedly taken to russia by the occupation authorities. this was told to us by grandmother sashka, who lives in the territory controlled by ukraine and is searching. my grandson, well, they were taken out of donetsk, well, on february 20 , they were taken out, 13, they were stuck and taken away, there are many children there. this conversation was with sashka's grandmother recorded more than a year ago, then she said that above all she wanted to find her grandson, and if he was really taken to russia, then to return him to ukraine and take him into custody.

the boy's grandmother also said that sashko, after he was taken to russia, allegedly stayed in one of the boarding schools in taganrog or rostov-on-don, and in the summer they were taken to yevpatoria. unfortunately, sashka's grandmother did not have any more information. then the boy's grandmother gave us this photo of her grandson, in which , as you can see, he is still very small. unfortunately, we didn't have any more photos of sashka, which is a bit difficult. the search process, because the boy is already a teenager and, of course, could change a lot visually. but this photo of sasha, where he is at least a little older, was helped by cyber experts from the cyborg community. they got access to the so -called dpr children of donbas database, and there they found information about sashka ivanov. here is his actual application, there is a photo of the guy,

his personal details are indicated. data and the fact that he really was in the donetsk boarding school, where he was registered in 2020. so, the information provided by cyber experts is really important. at the same time, unfortunately, it is still not known where exactly sashko ivanov is and whether everything is okay with him. so we have a very high hope that maybe one of you who sees this video will recognize the boy and help him. search, and although it is possible that sashko was indeed taken to russia, this is currently inaccurate information that is currently being checked, so i ask absolutely everyone, if you know anything about sashko ivanov, immediately report it to the hotline of the magnolia children's search service by short number 11630, z calls to all mobile operators in ukraine are free, it is also possible that this program

will be seen in russia, if you know any information about sasha ivanov and can confirm that he is really in russia, then write to us on the website of the child tracing service, or on our facebook or instagram, and i want to note that any information about the child is important in the search, so let's not be indifferent and let's try to find sashka ivanov together, so i'm asking each of you to do your best. share this video on your social media pages. in general the deportation of children is a component of the crime of genocide, so i would like to note that if you know about any crime against a child, in particular about abduction or deportation, do not remain indifferent and immediately report it to the police, or report it to our website stopcrime.ua. you can even do it

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