the building of the orthodox church of ukraine of the structure is more political than religious, uniting the schismatic orthodox church of the kiev patriarchate and the ukrainian autocephalous church. the canonical parishes of the moscow patriarchate began to be exposed. the growing attacks to ban the uoc for the local authorities became the number one goal and successively, the priests of the ptsu and the right-wing radicals went to it, as the shock force attacked the processions, smashed the church, beat the parishioner and threatened the priests. well, for the last 3 months supporters of the dog, with the support or tacit consent of the officials, seized about 250 churches of the canonical orthodox church of ukraine it was decided to no longer designate its leaders with quotation marks, and the birds, in turn, were asked

to stop raider attacks on parishes and restore the church hierarchy in order to ensure the proper appointment of bishops of the ukrainian collaborationism did not bring indulgence to the orthodox church. that's what we were told. why are these decisions of the meeting on may 27 necessary in order to reduce the pressure on the gonay. hrc nothing like nothing has decreased. uh, after this meeting twenty regions. however , whether the decision of the council was a manifestation of a civil position or an attempt to secure parishes and pastures within the ukrainian orthodox church, it was widely supported. not everyone, for example, was opposed by the donetsk and crimean diocese, in in particular, metropolitan mitrofan of horlovsky and slavonic, who participated in the local council. and if we have to express distrust in ourselves, and i said that if i vote for when i was given

the floor, this would be a betrayal both in relation to our clergy and in relation to believers . i won't be able to look them in the eye and then come and say that we don't remember the patriarch now. however, just the other day in st. sophia of kiev, as a result of an unofficial meeting of opts priests with representatives of the psu, a letter was signed calling for the creation of a church the tribunal over the patriarch of moscow and all russia kirill, it is curious that the initiator of this event was the state service of ukraine for ethnopolitics and freedom of conscience , which is headed by the notorious olena bogdan, the protege of the architect of the color revolutions george soros, began systematic purposefully from century to century, transmitted as a political baton and destruction, orthodoxy is there and now, as no wonder a huge uh, uh piece of this orthodoxy in ukraine is being torn away. strictly speaking, here is the orthodox world. it's a fight inside

christianity. e for leadership. i repeat with a very hard political context. you can even say like this. this is the brzezin only with the cross church maidan and the schism, orthodoxy of this idea is a fix, which in ukraine the catholic church began to implement back in the 16th century. after the union of brest, the creation of the greek catholic church, today's church realities, when there are three orthodox churches in parallel in parallel, clearly demonstrate this mission . centuries later, it turned out to be largely successful confirmation was the construction of the main cathedral of the ukrainian greek catholic church of the cathedral of the resurrection of christ in kiev on the left bank of the dnieper this unian church became the highest in the ukrainian capital anna efimov valeriy savelyev

anastasia popova let's talk with our permanent expert rostislav. ishchenko rostislav good afternoon. good afternoon, if you look at the long history of attempts to split the ukrainian. conditions can we say that the result is finally achieved today? well, firstly, uh, if we talk about attempts to split, the split of russian orthodoxy must last, because even the very re-creation at one time by the kiev metropolis. this, by the way, was subordinated to the patriarchate of constantinople at one time, it was already aimed at splitting a single orthodox array. so uh, it has long roots. this is precisely about the split of russian orthodoxy further. if we turn to today, we see that the same ukrainian state has not yet separated, that is, the soviet union has not yet collapsed, but the bishop of the kiev exarchate of the ukrainian

exart. the russian orthodox church was not yet the ukrainian church, the russian orthodox church was the ukrainian exarchate. they are already writing a petition. ah, holy synod. yes, but what they do not receive, they receive autonomy on the basis of, in fact, autocephaly, because they are absolutely not controlled by the russian orthodox church. they are only self-governing independent, which is emphasized in practice, well moreover, they are in the governing structures of the russian orthodox church. the russian orthodox church does not have its own representative in the synod of the ukrainian main church, but spiritual communion is preserved. oh yes, spiritual communion is preserved, but again, it is preserved by the efforts of the roc who try not to notice many arts, the ukrainian orthodox church was forced to rely on the roc in the fight against ukrainian nationalists not because she did not love them, because they did not love her schismatics. in this sense, they have achieved, uh, their

result of what you want. no, they wanted to become the one and only ukrainian orthodox church. that is, they emphasized all the time that the boys. the only canonical church, but by proclaiming autocephaly on their own, they, firstly, uh, violated church canons, and they became exactly the same self-proclaimed. secondly, they lost the support of a significant part of their most devoted parishioners, because both monasteries and parishes. many in ukraine are now turning to the patriarch with a request to take him under his omophorion. directly crimean e not only crimean is the whole dioceses, and in kiev there are monasteries. there are parishes that continue to mention that the patriarchs drive them out of the church and pick up churches. they serve in garages. they serve in apartments there, well, they actually leave in such a combo, but they uh remain loyal to the russian orthodox church.

as far as if i understand the position correctly. eh, patriarch kirill and the russian orthodox church, they nevertheless reacted with understanding to the latest actions of the ukrainian orthodox church, which confirmed its independence, which in fact, thanks to the tomus, she also had alexy ii, and in this sense, if i understand correctly, her authorities still, until the ukrainian orthodox church is so completely undermined, they are holding some more blow. what do you think that the russian orthodox church was forced to state that in its proclamation? yes, there is no word autocephaly, but de facto it is proclaimed in such. uh, the upc went much further than thomas issued a lecture second under duress, in fact there was a very powerful political pressure, and a powerful there is always political pressure christianity was born under powerful political pressure. i just wanted to say that yes, these people who you do not have grace outside of economic communication with the roc , they are, most likely, really, well,

the self-appointed hierarchy of the oc nevertheless retains spiritual communication in this sense. i just want to understand, that's when the schismatics will act next. which is still trying to split the uoc, pulling out some parishes in the dog. how can one lie down in it to maintain spiritual fellowship if they they stopped changing the patriarch as if they were their father , and they changed the master and commemorates him only among others. this is already a split within the uoc, in fact, by their actions they did not split, including the ukrainian orthodox church. that is, is it possible to consider that the kiss achieved its goal and split it all the same, the fact is that they , in principle, cannot achieve their goal, because there are two big political forces, one political force is russia and we see that on territories occupied by russian troops not only population very quickly reorient to russia well, and the church hierarchies will also reorient to russia all the hierarchies that are

there in the donbass yes, that means, in kherson there, zaporozhye anyway due to special circumstances. you can adhere to other views, that is, and absurdity from the point of view of church dogma, the whole church adheres to the same views. and some dioceses hold other views, but nevertheless they made this decision, and this just shows that as russia advances, the uoc is losing control over these territories. they are de facto moving. uh, on the other hand, under the controller of the process, there is pressure from poland and pressure from the collective west, and for them the bird is only a transitional step, the very concept of the ukrainian orthodox church. begins to gradually disappear those that go to the west. they go to the union and to catholicism. this means those who e continue to maintain e, fidelity to the orthodox canon. they are gradually leaving for the roc and normal is being restored in ukraine. uh,

the church authority of the russian orthodox church. then i'll ask a broad question. what are the prospects for orthodoxy on the territory of ukraine well, look at the points of view, the good thing is that, again, with the exception of a few unian regions of western ukraine, all other regions of ukraine are generally orthodox, and as they return to the political orbit of the russian federation, they also return to the orbit of the russian orthodox church . and i hope that they will not restore the ukrainian exarchate, as it used to be some self-governing structures, which one way or another begin to gravitate to separatism, and these territories will remain under direct control. e management. uh, the patriarchs will simply enter the metropolis or the russian orthodox church from my point of view. it will be good for , uh, the russian orthodox church, and for what was once called the

ukrainian orthodox church, because all this dirt will stop. all these splits, all these intrigues, means about who is more independent, then less. standing there and so on, and schismatics, yes, they can exist, but as it turns out, after that only they lose access to material wealth there are only a few who persist in the split, and the rest for some reason immediately begin to return to their more successful comrades. thank you very much it was very interesting. union from the latin union in political vocabulary, this term denotes the union, the community of two or more states under the rule of one monarch in the history of the territory that today became central and western ukraine lublin played a decisive role in it in 1.569, therefore treaties in one state speech, commonwealth united poland and