with this appeal and organized voting in the hall. we ask you, the ecumenical patriarch, the head of the holy orthodox church of constantinople, which was and remains the mother church of the kyiv metropolitanate, to recognize the act of 1686 as invalid, as it was adopted in violation of the sacred canons of the orthodox church. for the good of the orthodox church in ukraine and the integrity of the ukrainian people, publish a tome on orthodox autocephaly. churches in ukraine. resolution of the verkhovna rada of ukraine of june 16 , 2016. in this appeal was written the key point of the request to repeal the act of 1686 . this document is a certificate of the annexation of the kyiv metropolitanate, which moscow received due to threats and bribes to the ecumenical patriarch dionysius ii, who was extremely famous. without such a step, tomos would not have existed. and so on october 11, 2018, the synod of the mother church.

canceled the act of 1686. supporters of autocephaly breathed a sigh of relief. that's it, now there is no way back. moscow lost. and for the roc branch in ukraine, it was the last chance to break with the russian state. but how did you use this chance? the kremlin reacted with an emergency meeting of the security council of the russian federation, the very decision of which was always preceded by the resolution of wars in chechnya, georgia against ukraine. the very next day, october 12, late in the evening, the main security forces of russia gathered at the kremlin. if before that someone could pretend that the history of cooperation between the russian church and the russian state is a distant past, just a story, then the decisive intervention of the security council of the russian federation threw off all masks and proved that the russian orthodox church still remains an organic part of the empire that putin decided to restore . because it's 13 the next day in october, cyril also urgently convenes the synod of the russian orthodox church in minsk.

and pidkozyk, the decision of the security council of the russian federation, breaks the eucharistic communication with the ecumenical patriarch, declares war on him, and for this decision of the gondyaiv synod, and to put it directly to putin, onufriy berezovsky and antony pakanuchi voted for it. this is how onufriy and antony agreed that their state is in moscow, not in kyiv, and the church is just a curtain for various types of special operations and pseudo-historical demagoguery of the kremlin. it was with them that he covered himself so conveniently. putin, when he declared war on ukraine on february 24. in kiev, they continue to prepare the massacre of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate. new bills directed against the clergy and millions of parishioners of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate have been registered in the council. neither onuflii nor other episcopal orthodox churches in ukraine objected to putin. some of them went over to the side of the aggressor. list of crimes of moscow priests. which

the security service began to document from december 22nd stunned the country. however, before that , a new head of the sbu had to be appointed. previous ivan bakanov defended the russian orthodox church. already during the war, the state service for issues of ethnopolitics and freedom of conscience, which was then headed by olena bohdan, in response to my appeals, directly defended the russian orthodox church. do you remember that serhii trofimov was the lobbyist of the russian orthodox church in the president's office. it was he who went to chernivtsi to remove mykola gergelyuk from the post of state registrar. after metropolitan meletii of bukovyna complained about gergelyuk to the president's office. it was in 2019, in 2023, that zelenniaskyi deprived meletius of his citizenship and imposed sanctions for supporting the aggression of the russian federation. what irony, army, faith, language. at the beginning of the full-scale aggression, the sbu initiated 68 criminal proceedings against mp clergy, including 14 bishops. among the exposed facts are 20 cases. treason,

collaborationism and aiding and abetting the aggressor country. in addition, 18 proceedings are being investigated regarding public agitation for religious hatred, as well as the sale of firearms and even distribution child pornography. 26 mp representatives received suspicion, another 19 court verdicts. 19 priests were also stripped of their citizenship. 200 clicks were banned from entering ukraine. vasyl malyuk, head of the sbu, december 200. 22. for example, the adjuster urya, who was recently traded. he adjusted fire on peaceful neighborhoods, the court gave him 12 years. we changed him, he already went to the enemy, confirming his affiliation with their special services. what does he have to do with god? i'm interested. in march 2022, the abbot of the mpp parish in the village of uzhachyn, zhytomyr region, convinced the community that quote: russia sent troops to liberate ukrainians from the nazis and the people of bandera.

quotes, and also that the residents are not being killed by the russian occupiers, but by the armed forces. the court found him guilty of collaboration. the city court of vinnytsia recognized metropolitan yanafan of tulchynsk and bratslavsk, yeletsky. he was found guilty of publicly justifying russian aggression and sentenced to 5 years in prison with confiscation of property. on october 17, 2022, the konotopsky district court of the sumy region sentenced oleksandr boyko, a priest of the ministry of religion, under the article of collaboration activity. punishment, correctional works. on february 20, 2023, the sbu informed metropolitan feodosius, head of the cherkasy diocese, of suspicion of inciting inter-confessional strife. on march 3, 2000, the 23rd, the abbot of the mp church in the shostina district of the sumy region was arrested for collecting data for the fsb, suspected of treason. on may 18, 2023 , archimandrite matviy pimashen, the vicar of the men's monastery of the pischan icon of the mother of god of the izyum diocese of mp, was

sentenced to up to eight years in prison on suspicion of justifying the aggression of the russian federation. july 3, 2023 a novice of the pochaiv assumption lavra who justified the armed aggression of the russian federation against ukraine was condemned. up to five years in prison. on february 24, 2022, in gospomila near the downed helicopter, the police detained a russian saboteur and correctional officer, mp priest mykhailo pavlushenko. on april 26, 22nd, law enforcement officers detained him for espionage. abbot of the church of the holy tekhvin icon of the mother of god, archpriest andriy pavlenko. the court sentenced him to 12 years of imprisonment. the collaborator was exchanged. in may 2022 in the village. yarova, abbot of the parishes of the horliv eparchy of the ministry of culture, created a body of the occupation authorities. the court sentenced him to 7 years in prison, later it was exchanged. on december 10 , the 22nd, the security service completed security measures at the objects of the ministry of defense in the kharkiv region. hundreds of thousands of cash about kremlin literature and dry packs of russian riddles were seized.

on december 10, 22nd, the sbu exposed a mp deacon in zaporizhzhia who campaigned for the city's joining the russian federation. on may 9 , the 23rd, archimandrite yoann prokopenko was notified under... for collaboration, participated in the forum with russia in melitopol. 12 on may 23, metropolitan yoasav of the kirovohrad diocese was sentenced to three years in prison with a probationary period of two years. he was part of the immediate circle of patriarch kirill, praised the occupation of ukraine, provoked enmity in favor of the aggressor. on may 23, the abbot of the men's monastery of saint sava the sanctified in melitopol, archimandrite ion prokopenko, was informed of the suspicion of collaborative activities. the suspect longen, the head of the men's monastery of the chernivtsi-bukovyna diocese of mp, was notified for inciting international enmity on july 10, the 23rd, the sbu kidnapped a cleric of the moscow patriarchate in the cherkasy region, who was justifying russian armed

aggression. he kept a portrait of hitler and justified putin. on july 26, the 23rd, the sbu reported the suspicion to metropolitan iosif maslinnikov of the uoc. the bishop blessed the russian. to the army to fight against the armed forces, is hiding in the russian federation. and most recently, on september 26 in the kherson region, the sbu detained a cleric of the russian orthodox church who was selling weapons, in particular ammunition for rpg-7 grenade launchers, needle mirrors, automatic weapons and machine guns, equipped two shelters. one of them is just in the church, his friends from crime helped him find clients. on september 30 , 2022, in the heoriiv hall of the kremlin, putin announces the so-called annexation of the four occupied regions of ukraine. among the guests of honor are clerics of the moscow patriarchate from ukraine. metropolitan panteleimon povoroznyuk of luhansk and alchevsk. archimandrite ion prokopenko, the abbot of the holy savinsky monastery in melitopol, and archimandrite alexiy fedorov, the abbot of the holy assumption cathedral in kherson. such

there was not a large number of traitor priests in any denomination, in any church. it is interesting that the church itself did not excommunicate them, did not punish them, did not apply the norms of the church court. why? because most of the priests of this church stand in the same position. according to the ukrainian pravda investigation, metropolitan unufry and more than 20 bishops of the moscow patriarchate in ukraine have russian citizenship. onufriy, also known as orest berezovsky, received a russian passport in moscow on march 20, 2002, and in 2003 , a foreign passport of the russian federation. however, it is already his second passport for traveling abroad. he received the first one back in 1998. and therefore russian. had citizenship back in the 90s. well, this is also a historical experience. since the restoration of the russian orthodox church by stalin in 1943, it was an organic part of the imperial body, and its rulers in ukraine were sexots. according to the certificate of the office of the o. mdb-urser, after the restoration

of the russian orthodox church in 1945, 17 bishops and one metropolitan of the russian orthodox church in ukraine were 15 agents of the special services. a total of 574 priests were recruited. and another 1,636 were informers or, as the people said, sexots. the most valuable agents of the mdb of the ukrainian ssr in 1947, in the operative reference the agent was named petro. this is the bishop of vershalovograd and donets, nikon petrov, who, quote, developed the anti-soviet underground of the iuants, with his help the illegal monastery in lysychchansk was liquidated, end of quote. gent hlibov, bishop of lviv makariy oksiyuk. his main goal is not only the defeat of the ugk and the discovery of the priests of the catacomb church. oksiyuk also led a special counter-intelligence operation to raid the polish orthodox church, which was taken to constantinople. ivanov, bishop of drohobytsk mykhailo melnyk. the ordination of a simple priest took place in the kyiv-pechersk lavra after

he actively joined the pseudosor in 46. the nkvd tasked the calm agent, bishop borys vik of nizhyn, to fight against the clergy of the ukrainian autocephalous orthodox church, which was restored under the german occupation. usov agent, bishop of sup and okhtyr hilarion prokhorov. quote: performed a special task of the second directorate. the nkvd did a lot of work to identify romanian and german intelligence agencies and others anti-soviet element. the ex-chairman of the council of religious affairs of the ussr kostyantyn kharchev later stated. quote: no candidate for bishop or other high office. any member of the holy synod did not receive it without the approval of the cpsu and the kgb. separate special measures of the security service of ukraine help identify the most dangerous persons, but do not solve the problem in any way. in general, because it is not about a few dozen traitors, it is about the criminal organization itself, it is a highly motivated, ideologically

convinced group that carefully fulfills the assigned tasks, but if espionage and adjustment of fire is relatively easy to detect, it is more difficult to prove provocation of civil conflict, roc priests do it all over ukraine. take the same processions with gorov ribbons and the horses of the russian emperor, which is not there, they did not abandon their anti-ukrainian propaganda , not from...' ukrainian soldiers. what about the government? the authorities turn a blind eye to the russian orthodox church. ukrainians don't, sociology proves it. if in december 2022 , 78% of ukrainians demanded that the authorities take action against the mp, then in july 23, 85% already. if those who demanded an immediate ban on mp was 54%, now it is 66%. and most importantly, in the effectiveness of individual point investigations regarding clerics of the russian church in ukraine. ukrainians do not believe that if in december 12% believed that this was enough, now only six. this problem,

which threatens ukrainian statehood, must be solved systematically. not by nsdc sanctions or court verdicts, but by a decision of the ukrainian parliament. that is why i insist on the adoption of a special law. he should put an end to a long dramatic story that began back in 1992, when moscow organized a coup and a split in ukrainian orthodoxy and made it happen. with his weapon in total, the verkhovna rada registered 11 draft laws banning or restricting the activities of the uocp, but the main ones are two: 82:21 - authored by mykola knyazhytskyi, 83-71 - authored by the cabinet of ministers. the draft law 82:21 was also supported by deputies from european solidarity, voice, servant of the people, the group for the future and non-partisans. the committee on humanitarian and information policy recommended it for consideration in the session hall. the essence of mine the draft law is that the activity of the russian orthodox church in ukraine is prohibited, therefore the law stops the influence of russia and the russian world, because this is

the direct duty of the state, and the direct duty of the government, the president's office and the verkhovna rada is to fulfill their constitutional duties to ensure the national security of the belligerent country. the russian orthodox church structures must stop playing fools with our state and society, saying that the russian orthodox church distanced itself from moscow, because in fact it is a religious organization headed by a russian... citizen orist berezovsky. he is also metropolitan onuphrius, in the future he will be subordinate to patriarch kirill and moscow. the government cannot transfer its direct responsibilities to citizens. it is the government that must ensure compliance with law and order. inactivity of the authorities cannot provoke conflicts. the authorities have no right to cover the activities of the aggressor's structure on our territory. freedom of conscience reigns in ukraine, so the state has no right to interfere in what people believe in, or do not believe at all. someone wants to believe in saint onuphrius, or not so saint onuphrius, if they want, let them

believes the tomos on the autocephaly of the orthodox church of ukraine was received by the church itself, as well as by the ukrainian state. this is one of the fundamental acts of ukrainian statehood, the foundation of our spiritual independence. it is about her that president volodymyr zelensky talks so passionately. the advice is that these words become deeds, because the decision to ban the activities of the russian orthodox church in ukraine depends exclusively on him. bill. 22:21 corresponds to the decisions of the constitutional court of ukraine and the supreme court of ukraine. it is exclusively consistent with european legislation in the field of freedom conscience, judicial practice and recommendations of the european court of human rights, and therefore any citizen who challenges the norms of our draft law, which will become law, will first have to answer the question about how the activities of the russian orthodox church in ukraine serve the national interests of ukraine, defends the ukrainian democratic society against russian aggression, the goal of which is the destruction of the state and the genocide of the nation. my

bill is based on the fact that there is already an autocephalous orthodox church in ukraine, therefore any religious organization can use. the word orthodox in its name, only if it is subordinate to the orthodox church of ukraine, because the patriarchal and synodal tomos was given not only to a separate church, but also to the entire state, because the state is also concerned about obtaining it, that is why the verkhovna rada applied, and therefore the government and the president dealt with this issue, it is a political and legal document, not only a religious document, therefore i propose to include tomos in our legislation as an act of state formation, all other denominations will continue to operate in ukraine. but only one local church can use the word orthodox in its name. thus, the russian orthodox church in ukraine will no longer be able to manipulate the charter and call itself the ukrainian orthodox church. any ties between ukrainian religious communities and the russian orthodox church should be monitored. the procedure will be established by the cabinet of ministers. and the most important thing: bill 82.21 fully

complies with european legislation in the field of visa reporting and freedom of conscience. in the field of national security protection and the practice of the european court of human rights, that is why we are not talking about advantages for any church, nor about restrictions for another, nor about banning someone, nor about oppression of religion, we are talking exclusively about the inadmissibility of activities in ukraine of an organization that supports and participates in armed aggression against ukraine, and in matters of national security, europe is uncompromising. draft law 82:21 and its amendments also gained legitimacy within ukraine, in particular, it was supported by a number of... regional councils: lviv, khmelnytskyi, zhytomyr, vinnytsia, kyiv, kharkiv. all other regional councils adopted an appeal to the parliament to ban the activities of the russian orthodox church in ukraine without specifying draft laws. the mykolaiv, zaporizhzhya and dnipropetrovsk regional councils did not consider this issue, and refused to even discuss the odesa problem on june 23, 2023. the draft law

8221 of april 4 this year was supported by the coalition of public acts. quote: we, representatives of ukrainian public organizations, call on the ukrainian parliament to protect the national security of ukraine and to finally ban subversive activities in structures of the russian orthodox church created by order of stalin in our country. the activities of the russian orthodox church and its local branch of the uoc of the moscow patriarchate have always had a more political than religious nature. and in the conditions of full-scale russian aggression, the actions of these structures, which go beyond the scope of purely church life, are particularly dangerous, the activists said in a statement. on november 25 , 2022, people's deputy oleksiy goncharenko submitted a petition for the immediate review of draft law 8221. in just three days, it gained the necessary 25,000 votes. by on the month of december 24, 22nd, president volodymyr zelenskyi responded to the petition, who said that it was not his competence, but that

of the verkhovna rada. at the same time, he reminded that the cabinet of ministers had already been instructed to prepare alternatives. draft law, according to the decision of the national security council on december 1 , 2022. therefore, on december 1, 2022, the issue of the roc was considered by the council of national security and defense. this means that the authorities recognized this structure as a military threat. that's what i write in my draft law, a threat to national security. but at the same time, instead of taking already the draft law that has been approved by the committee of the verkhovna rada and brought to the floor for voting, the government instructs to prepare. an alternative document, but what is important, this bill is not an alternative to bill 8221, but a torpedo that should sink any intention to liquidate the russian orthodox church in ukraine. not long ago , onuphrius also supported him. what's wrong with a government document? let's figure it out. if draft law 8221 proposes a clear and direct ban on the activities

of the russian orthodox church on the territory of ukraine, then government 83-71 uses vague wording. which will allow you to evade their execution. in particular, the state service of ethnopolitics and freedom of conscience must first conduct a religious examination to identify subordination in canonical matters to the church from the aggressor's country. if a violation is established, an order is issued to eliminate them, and if the violation is not eliminated within a month, a lawsuit is filed with the court to terminate the activity of the religious organization. what does this mean in practice, and only that the government actually proposes to ban each a separate religious organization, because the project lacks sufficient legal certainty and a clearly spelled out mechanism. the russian orthodox church has such organizations in ukraine, where the bureaucratic procedure is time-consuming, and the judicial procedure is even longer, in fact it will be impossible to ban the activities of the russian orthodox church as a structure.

we use a vivid example of how the procedure of banning the activities of the communist party lasted for almost eight years , although it was a much more obvious enemy, but a lawsuit was filed for its protection on july 8 , 2014, and the appeal finally banned the communist party on july 5, 2022. you know what happened to this one time? march 8: 2022, the russian special forces had already evacuated petro symonenko, first to belarus, and then to russia, and the communist party was still suing, so that this would not happen, that onufriy with his russian passport would already be closer to symonenko, and the courts would continue to consider the cases according to the russian orthodox church government bill 8371 has a cumbersome legal process consisting of several legal acts, a religious examination, an injunction and a court filing, and each such legal decision stimulates a large number of separate legal proceedings. challenging an order or examination is a process that takes years, if the subject of the litigation is the validity of the examination, the court will be

obliged to appoint a judicial examination, but there are no certified judicial experts in religious examination in the country. also , there are no registered methods of their implementation, that is, consideration of the case of appeal of only the prescription and only in the first instance can drag on for years. even. a change from draft law 8221, which was drawn up on the basis of the practice of the european court of human rights, government draft 8371 provides for an appeal in ecthr, even before the state service of ethnopolitics files a lawsuit for non-fulfillment of the order and prohibition of activity. there is also no procedure for verifying the completeness of the prescription. in fact, a religious organization can send a response, we have eliminated everything, ids has no authority to question it. but the most interesting thing is that draft law 8371 does not contain a clear obligation to fulfill the prescription, and it is not known exactly what should be contained in the prescription, so

an expertise will be needed, which is not available. that is, after the first lawsuit challenging the order, which will take years, the second injunction suit will also go through the courts for a very long time. in addition, the bill leaves the fate of the property of a banned religious organization uncertain. lease agreements, state and communal facilities. but the authorities do not want to adopt even such a politically vegetarian, absolutely declarative document. speaker ruslan stepanchuk recently stated that there are no votes in the parliament. at first glance, this is true, they always said about the moscow patriarchate in ukraine: "a solid church for solid people." and although yanukovych's golden days have long passed, a serious lobby of the russian orthodox church is still active in the parliament. journalists conducted an investigation and found out that in the presidential faction. in the service of the people , more than a third of the 200 deputies oppose any restrictions on the activities of the russian orthodox church in ukraine . peace has not disappeared from this hall or from our

government offices. despite the unleashed genocide of our people, the thousands of dead at the front and in the body, the millions of mutilated ukrainian destinies. glavkom publication published an investigation, which i named the biggest lobbyists of the moscow church in the parliament. in the past, the entire opzh faction, especially in novinsky, yuri boyko, mykhailo dobkin. as of now, pro-moscow work is being continued by those who have still retained their mandates. andriy kholodov from servants of the people signed a mandate after the corruption scandal. pavlo halimon, oleksandr sova, olga savchenko and deputy chairman of the servant of the people faction artem kultenko, in his orbit about 10 deputies. valery dubil has been defending mp valery dubil in his homeland for many years. the moscow church is partially supported by the razunkova group and the group pavlyuk one of the most effective lawyers. roc in ukraine, former member of the servant of the people faction, artem dmytruk. shameful and bitter, first the persecution of the laurel, now the persecution of christianity as a whole, and what's next, the gas

furnace? but whether there are votes in the rada, the servant of the people faction itself has a majority in the verkhovna rada, you know that. european solidarity with a voice will surely be voted in full . votes will also be added by deputies from the homeland, trust and groups for the future. a large part of non-factions will also press the green button. therefore, on... on the lack of support from verkhovna rada, this is rather an attempt to throw sand in the eyes. well, the formula is surprisingly simple: no will in the president's office, no vote in parliament. how can it be otherwise? it is worth looking at the experience of latvia, moldova and even bulgaria. all three countries have strong russian influence, but the political will of the authorities is to protect their states from the russian orthodox church, and therefore from putin. this will turned out to be stronger. each of them in its own way, but squeezes out the russian church. why where there is no war? understand that the moscow patriarchate threatens theirs national security, and the ukrainian government continues to wag its tail during a terrible war. in september 2022, the parliament of latvia adopted

amendments to the law on the latvian orthodox church, according to which this church should become completely independent from the moscow patriarchate. the initiative to separate the latvian orthodox church from the russian orthodox church was not initially discovered by priests, but by the president of latvia, egel levits. it was the head of state who introduced amendments to the law to the latvian parliament. the motivation, as in bill 82-21, is national protection security by adopting the amendments to the law, the latvian state recognizes that. the orthodox church is a fully autonomous and independent autocephalous church. it does not depend on the authority of any other church outside latvia. in the independent, democratic and legal state of latvia, our orthodox need their own, independent and independent church. president of latvia, egil levits. it is expected that the roc condemned the adoption of the law in latvia, as well as the actions of the metropolitan of rysa and all latvia oleksandr, who obeyed the decision of his state, and not

someone else's meanwhile, the president of moldova, maia sandu, took a course to break the relations of the orthodox church of moldova with the russian orthodox church. once upon a time, this church was under the authority of the metropolitan of galicia. now the metropolitanate of moldova and chisinau is part of the moscow patriarchate. but it has a competitor. bessarabian diocese of the romanian orthodox church. and it was to her that the sanda government handed over the historic building of the kisheniv theological seminary. and so he destroyed a strong center of pro-moscow propaganda in kishenev. in the state. teaching is resumed at the university of theology, which will be led by teachers from romania, active transitions from the russian to the romanian church began. moscow threatens such priests, but they receive a salary from the state budget, so they are happy to change jurisdiction. in general, the romanian church officially called the russian occupation structure. another obstacle to russian peace on the part of bulgaria, after the coming to power of the pro-european government, the special services began to investigate the russian orthodox church's involvement in the hybrid

strategy. in favor of russian geopolitical interests. consequently, at the end of august , archimandrite vasian, the superior of the russian orthodox church in sofia, was expelled from the country. this is a big scandal, because the courtyard has the status of an embassy in orthodoxy. earlier , vasina was banned from entering northern macedonia. friendly to ukraine, because he often came to skopje to agitate the macedonian church against the ocu. health and happiness, the armed forces enjoy the greatest trust among ukrainians, almost all of us believe in our victory and want peace to come after that, we will win, there will be peace, we

ukrainians are the bravest. the bravest nation the world our loyal allies are helping us. how can we speed up the victory? who prevents the end of the war on our terms and helps the enemy to nurture false illusions. the russian aggressor wants to destroy our infrastructure and will to win. he wants to expel us from our native land. he hopes for fatigue from the war in europe and the usa, for a beneficial result of the presidential elections in america. all hopes of russia are in vain. but we need victory and peace on our land. to contribute both at the front and in the rear. the majority of ukrainians understands that banning the activities of the russian orthodox church will open the way to a quick victory, because it will help to fence off the russian world with a sky-high wall. we firmly know that the russian world and russian orthodoxy bring us war, death and ruin. we have all the tools to ban the activities of the russian church, including our bill and the support of society. what is missing? president volodymyr

zelenskyi's decision is also in the parliament. his beatitude metropolitan onufriy congratulated the ukrainian soldiers on the day of defenders of ukraine. he is in a difficult situation. we must to do everything to free him and his church from the putruzkamir, to help him and his parishioners serve not putin and gondyaev, but the ukrainian people and the ukrainian state. the situation is paradoxical. despite the tens of thousands of victims, the daily shelling of our peaceful towns and villages, the drama of millions of internally displaced people. from foreign refugees, the spirit of ruska mira does not fade away from the offices of power at the bank of groshevsky. supporters and agents of the russian world hope that they will be able to wait and wait for better times for themselves. their hope, activity or inaction is a continuation of the war. our duty is to stop them. we must mobilize, act clearly and persistently in achieving the goal. prohibition of the activities of the russian orthodox church in ukrainian.