to approve ban therefore, they can go from the beginning to the actual ban. years, in addition, the uocpas a complex legal organization and is divided into a total of more than 90 religious legal entities. for a ban, it will be necessary to sue each of them. the russian church has already reacted. the head of the russian orthodox church , kyrylo gundyaev, called on the international community to support the uoc. the appeal published on the website of the russian orthodox church refers to the so-called discrimination of believers in ukraine. he said that the declaration of the uoc as a church is illegal - i quote, he puts it the ukrainian state is one of the largest. more sinister god-fighting regimes of the past. that was the end of the quote. in december of last year, ukrainian president zelensky implemented a decision on sanctions against religious organizations affiliated with the center of influence in russia. the draft law on the ban of such organizations was registered in january, but until october there were discussions about its adoption. now, after approval in the first reading

the government project does not prohibit it at all, the uocp says that it is necessary to prohibit the activities of religious organizations with centers in the country of the aggressor, but for this purpose it provides a very complicated procedure. first, it is necessary to... conduct a theological examination of each religious organization, and there are more than 10,000 of them in the uocp, after the religious examination is carried out, this organization can go to court, and the court must then appoint a forensic examination, and the problem is that , that we do not have judicially certified experts who would be rally experts in the country, and there are no methods that should be, already at this stage this ban may be blocked, even if such with a center in country of the aggressor exists, but if it is not blocked, after that the state service for ethnopolitics of freedom of conscience must issue a prescription, this prescription: this is a document that does not have any mandatory execution according to the current legislation, it is just a piece of paper that informs this or that

verkhovna rada supported in the first reading the draft law that can stop... the activities of the uocpt is said on government project 8371, which provides for the prohibition of the activities of religious organizations connected with russia in ukraine. i note that it is called the softest among other initiatives to ban the uocp, for example, an alternative document from european solidarity, he predicted the immediate ban of the ukrainian orthodox church, and the proposals of the group, some deputies from different factions, in general , a quick deprivation of the property of the ukrainian orthodox church and a simplified transition of communities. to the orthodox church of ukraine. we will talk a little later about what the document voted on today offers, but for now, let's see how the capital reacted to the actual first step towards banning the uoc of the moscow patriarchate. the verkhovna rada today adopted a bill on the ban on religious organizations that are managed from outside borders of ukraine. conditionally speaking, the ubcp will be banned, what do you think about it, the pr

the control bodies of the state, ukraine, will be able to really determine, not only in relation to uocpious organization, that it interferes in the activities of the state or threatens our national security, if such a solution is a systemic complex. will not be accepted, and now we are talking about him, well, we can really only welcome such a decision, since moscow's influence even during the war is absolutely unacceptable on the territory of ukraine. thank you, but let me remind you that in addition to the government bill, there is also a bill from the servant of the people faction, mykita poturaev, one of the co-authors, and from the opposition, from eurosolidarity, mykola knyazhytsky, one of the co-authors, let's hope that one of these draft laws, or a joint one, will be created, the main result will be adopted. government, and then to the second reading to accept some consensus positions from others, thank you, the main result is that this church should be banned as a branch of the fsb, i do, this is my personal opinion, oleksiy boryachenko was with us, our political expert, collea

should be banned, you can find this tape on youtube and watch, actually, about the activities of the uocpas far as she still is now remains an influence in ukraine, and it somehow seems like this, cynicism, and because we are now at war with russia, and russia is taking the lives of our civilians and military, and its church here is full of itself, lives on a large foot and feels good, and i look, read the comments, and supporters of the ukrainian orthodox church also write such things that it makes the hair stand on end, by the way, officially the ukrainian orthodox church said that they are now appealing that human rights are being violated here due to the fact that in the first reading... voted for this draft law and even kirill had his say, he is worried and says that it is a collision so to speak on the russian identity, well, you know, the fact that it is surbaned is , thank god, a good sign, and if there are parishioners who think a little more clearly, then they will understand, oh, something was voted in the parliament, in first read for banning this church, but maybe i won't go

of the all-ukrainian council of church and religious organizations, even the representative of the uocp supported it. well, that is, that is, this bill that has just been passed, it delays the procedure or makes it impossible to ban the activity as such a branch of the rp, it will simply be a ban on each parish, relatively speaking, and it can last there for decades, right? 50, 100 years, i don't know how long it can last, uh, sure, it's, it's, it's, well, actually it's, not a ban, but an imitation bans, for patriotic speeches, for everyone to applaud and praise themselves, and at the same time it is a positive step because it basically opens the door and shows the political will of the parliament to move in this direction, so from this point of view... even revolutionary, but it will not have a result. perhaps we will be able to achieve a result if, together with our colleagues, we manage to conduct and submit amendments that will make it more effective, although the very approach to the formation of this project is flawed from the very beginning, because it is not the court that shoul

the people 's elected representatives vote in our country, about the russian orthodox church, the uocp, because some people are a little fired up about that, and they say, what is that? it is being done, uh, the right to the orthodox world has been attacked by the orthodox church, well, in fact, if ukrainians, this question is yes, it is not timely today, and in fact... not very, not very painful, because we actually live with issues of support of the armed forces of ukraine, then, in the russian public, the religious issue is such a key issue, a campaign is really unfolding about the banning of the russian church of the moscow patriarchate, they are really starting to talk about the fact that the rights of certain believers are being tried in a certain way... in ukraine, squeeze, yes, there it does its own thing, there is doing its own thing, the company, and we can definitely state today that the information campaign that used to be deployed in russian public and had an impact on our region, on the information space of the sumy region, is definitely less, first of all, the citizens h

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. law project 82:21 was also supported by deputies from european solidarity, voice, servant of the people, group for the future and non-partisan groups. the committee on humanitarian and information policy recommended him to consideration in the session hall. the essence of my draft law is that the activities of the russian orthodox church in ukraine are prohibited. therefore, the law stops the influence of russia and the russian world, because this is a direct duty of the state, but it is already a direct duty of the government, the office of the president and the verkhovna rada to fulfill their constitutional duties to ensure the national security of a warring country. the roc structures must stop playing fools with our state and society, saying that the uocp has distanced itself from moscow, because in fact it is a religious organization headed by the russian citizen orist

does not mean the uocp, if this group, which calls itself the uocp , testifies that they have completely severed relations with the mosk...' church, left its synod, condemned their anti-ukrainian activities, stopped any communication and any contacts , then in principle they will be able to act absolutely calmly in ukraine, this is my law, but they do not want to do this and remain part of the russian orthodox church, and this activity definitely poses a real threat to national security. government law offers ban them through the courts, with completely incomprehensible terminology, and it will take a long time. for a long time, because we know that they banned the communist party in the 14th or 15th year , but went the way of banning it through the courts, and the court made a decision somewhere in the 23rd, after symonenko was already a special force from ukraine exported, and all this time, this so-called communist party has been acting calmly in ukraine , or has decided to ban them through the courts, they must be banned by law, in accordance with the convention on the protection of

of last year , the constitutional court recognized this law as constitutional, only the so-called uocpenamed after that. sanctions for this unfortunately, the law does not provide for neglect. that is why i proposed to write down the consequences clearly, because the fact that this public organization supports moscow, and not kyiv, in the war became obvious a long time ago, as early as may 8 , 2015. i well remember how then in the parliament president petro poroshenko awarded the 21st hero of ukraine. ten of them posthumously, the whole hall rose, everyone paid their respects, including foreign guests on the balconies, and only three people sat firmly in their chairs, three bishops of the russian orthodox church in ukraine: onufriy berezovsky, antoniy pakanich, and iona cherepanova on. in fact, such demonstrative contempt for ukrainian soldiers was only the culmination of the anti-ukrainian policy of this structure, which it pursued all the years after the declaration of independence. in fact, the moscow patriarchate... became the general spiritual headquarters of the fifth column in u

government courier, that's all, the law applies, so what there is a parish, there is a priest of the uocpople go to him, well, there to the church , so this decision has been made, as it is now, to rewrite, to accept, to become a priest or to close the church in general, as will happen further, and those priests who do not will want to be in the ukrainian church, but the church, what to do then, community, what to do, is this mechanism prescribed there, or as you said, the courts? and for 55 years, these courts will sit and think, the court cases of the judge will be passed from father to son, please know, you immediately put the question at the root, yes, i i think that we could have seen each other at those meetings, but not knowing each other then, of course, little has changed since then, and the cure for those problems has not changed either, and the first cure is in this bill before the second reading to establish such a mechanism in order to ban a church that has any connection with the moscow patriarchate, once again the connection between the uocp and the russian orthodox church

their awareness, now the verkhovna rada will vote, and tomorrow after voting, they will not see the uocp do not understand that these are only the first actions of the war, this is only the first reading, uh, it does not enter into force, after that there will be a second and third act, amendments, a second reading, and there is strength to vote it finally and remove the uoc.

vote for one or another draft law, and the prospects for the adoption of a draft law regarding the uocp general , how did it happen, it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen, but here we walked around with a list and gathered, well, let’s objectively discuss the situation, it didn't happen overnight. here you show photo of colleagues who led this process of walking around the hall, discussing and persuading many deputies, this process took not a day, not a week and even, it seems, not a month, if i am not mistaken, we started collecting these votes somewhere, somewhere probably in august or maybe even at the end of july, when this issue was repeatedly raised by colleagues at the conciliation councils, but always by the coalition. rejected it, motivating , among other things, the position that there are no votes, and what you just mentioned, yes, dear ruslan stefanchuk, in the interview on september 23, that is, this not so long ago, i said that there were no votes, but this plenary week we managed to overcome not even a psychological barrier , but i would say a legal and pol

maybe it will be effective, i just want to emphasize that... both laws do not prohibit either the uocpany other church, the essence of the laws is what they say, break off relations with moscow for good, and serve the god you see fit, no one forbids you to serve, they don't want to do it, that's the only conflict, not that someone wants to ban a certain church, and therefore it is fundamental for us to break ties with gondyaev, because we see that this church is currently preparing private military companies on the territory of russia, commits many other crimes, is in fact part of the russian army and the fsb . in principle, if we talk about severing relations with moscow, and how to do it with, say, the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, technologically, it makes some decisions there, announces some declarations, and we know that from a canonical point of view it has no opportunities if it considers itself a church. part of the russian orthodox church, then whatever resolutions and resolutions it passes there, they have nothing to do with breaking relations with the

, although the name of the uocp itself is not in this document. did you perceive this result yesterday, this indicator, perhaps still unexpected, calculated 240 votes, came out with a margin. well, i will say that valery dymova, yesterday was your birthday, you probably didn't pay much attention, i wish you all the best, many and good elite, but still, back to the bill, what does it mean? this means that i was finally given a gift, because i was waiting for this bill not yesterday, but the day before yesterday, and it should have been adopted much earlier, everyone knows bismarck's phrase that wars are won by parochial priests and village teachers, so on this religious front of russian aggression , in fact, russia was advancing for many, i won’t say centuries, but there, well, we saw how these moscow, supposedly ukrainian priests acted on temporarily occupied territories, before that we talked about the fact that there are some ideological things , we talked about what is russian aggression, what is the religious front of this war, but finally eve

the russian federation, 68 criminal proceedings have been initiated against representatives of the uocp which 16 are metropolitans of the church. among the most common suspicions are treason, collaborationism, justification and denial of the russian aggression, production and distribution of totalitarian symbols, violation of the equality of citizens, there are already 19 convictions against agents in cassocks. for example, we exposed the anti-priest andriy pavlenko, who was passing on data on the deployment of the armed forces in luhansk region to russia. he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for being a collaborator. well, the activity. another cleric, the one in charge of the tulchitsky diocese in vinnytsia region, was sentenced to five years in prison with confiscation of property. the sbu proved that he distributed propaganda leaflets among believers with calls to seizure of power and changes in the state border of ukraine. russian passports were even found in the possession of some men, 9 of them have already had their ukrainian citizenship revoked. currently, the issue of the co

for the lion's share, in my opinion, 60 people are in the register, these are representatives of the uocpe other. one of the denominations appears, therefore, under these circumstances, it cannot be seen that society simply does not want to see the moscow church, and especially, i let me remind you, this betrayal did not begin today, this betrayal began with the failure to insert, for example, the head of this church organization onufry and his deputy lebed during the moment of remembrance in the verkhovna rada for the fallen soldiers, where they sat on the balcony and pointedly didn't get up, i'm just surprised how restrained ukrainians are that these assholes didn't fly off the balcony of the verkhovna rada. down, in the session hall, i apologize for the emotionality, of course, but just this train of such anti-state activity, and the main thing is that this train is all time somehow leads to the main beneficiary, from the existence of this denomination in ukraine, to the banking one, and the main thing is that the political roof of this organization is all the time with the bank, well,

of the verkhovna rada, ruslan stepanchuk , said that he would not vote on the initiative to ban the uocpcause for no enough votes the other day , the author of such draft law 8221, people's deputy mykola knyazhytsky, addressed stepanchuk from the podium in the parliament. he emphasized: banning the russian orthodox church is a matter of non-freedom of speech, national security of the state. the russian church in ukraine should be banned. this is a matter of our national security. this is the largest public organization, directly subordinate to gundyaev and the kremlin, which zombifies ukrainian people, which brings millions of ukrainians to rallies against the ukrainian state and our values. together however, we must realize that all these people, most of them , unlike their clergy, are innocent, and it is our responsibility to help these people, our responsibility is not to show the will of the courts, but the will of the ukrainian state, which should tell them: break the ties ties with moscow, break ties with gondyae. no one forbids you to go to your churches and pray to god. in total,

the church world there is a very important canonical connection, it is in the onufriiv church of the uocp is clear, this was confirmed in january 2019, by the relevant government commission, and in january 23, also by the relevant government commission , by the current composition of the state service there on ethnopolitics and freedom of conscience, so now it is very important not to allow it to be emasculated, and secondly, very important, you mentioned the bill the european solidarity of knyazhytskyi and his colleagues was also supported by representatives of other factions, he is about a very simple decision to ban the moscow church and leave the orthodox to work in accordance with the tomos given in january 19 of that year to solve the issue of unification, and the bill that the verkhovna rada voted today , he goes the long way, there needs to be another commission , the commission will give an order, the order can be appealed, then court hearings in all instances, that is, it can drag on for months, if not years, and therefore until the second reading, we will propose norms that wil

there are still 8,500 uocp churches in ukraine, that is, thousands of centers of russian propaganda. greetings, i'm iryna koval and this is the news, summaries of the week on the espresso tv channel. the american atakams worked brilliantly this week in the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine. the defense forces hit airfields in berdyansk and luhansk with these missiles. as a result, the airstrip was damaged , nine enemy helicopters were destroyed, an air defense launcher, special equipment, ammunition warehouse. the detonation continued until the morning. the us defense ministry has traditionally emphasized that these weapons should be used only within the sovereign territory of ukraine. but the exact number of missiles transferred was not named, but was calculated in the new york times. there they refer to two western officials who note that the armed forces of ukraine received 20 missiles. in the material. it is said that the delivery was carried out in secret, due to fears that russia would be able to strike a shipment of weapons under time of import to ukraine. the minist

ukrainian religious leaders noted that the uocp not only has a direct connection with the russian authoritiesat this patriarchate actively supports the russian war in ukraine and the ideology of the russian world. they also rejected measures to allegedly suppress freedom of religion in ukraine, as some far-right american commentators say, including former fox news journalist tucker carson. this question has been raised by many and has been repeated repeatedly by takar carlson and his supporters even in the last 24 hours. born of a genocidal force that declared its intention to destroy ukraine as a country, as a culture, as an identity, it is very important to understand who it is said by those who draw the attention of the american government, institutions, and the world community to it. in russia, as already said, there is no religious freedom, all denominations lack religious freedom. there is a rapidly growing evangelical community in the us, and it often has a unique and interesting relationship with the republican party, a particular part of it, and yet, the evangelical community in the

case, it is not the first and not the last, because we have been hearing about the activities of this uocp 20 years, but we would like to hear your opinion about this case? well, in general, i am outraged that the citizens of ukraine are taking away any jewelry, and this once again confirms that this is a priest of the moscow patriarchate, that such a religious organization should be banned as soon as possible and cannot be called the ukrainian orthodox church today, since they are registered, that lead people astray, well in general, we now have many precedents, facts related to corruption during the war and not during the war, what should not happen in our state, not only related to jewelry, because today we are fighting not only for our land, including which country we are fighting for, we are fighting for a country without corruption, without abuse of our positions, so that we live in a legal state where decent, honest people live, and yes, and please tell me more, i'm sorry, whether there is at least one priest of the moscow patriarchate who serves a chaplain in the armed forces of uk

of the verkhovna rada was ruslan stepanchuk stated that he does not put the initiative to ban the uocp to a vote, because there are not enough votes for it. the other day, from the podium in the parliament, stepanchuk was addressed by the author of such draft law 822. the russian orthodox church is not a matter of freedom of speech, but of national security of the state. the russian church in ukraine should be banned, it is a matter of our national security. this is the largest public organization that directly reports to gundyaev and the kremlin, that zombifies ukrainian people, that brings millions of ukrainians to rallies against the ukrainian state. ours values, at the same time, we must realize that all these people , most of them, unlike their clergy, are innocent, and it is our responsibility to help these people, our responsibility to show not the will of the judges, but the will of the ukrainian state, which should tell them to break ties with moscow, break ties with gundyaev, no one forbids you to go to your churches and pray to god, in total, 11 draft laws were registered in

what were the conclusions of the investigation , and what the hell, how did representatives of the uocp sell child pornography. congratulations to everyone from espresso, with you annayevalnyk and this is the final news release. they worked for russia, sold weapons and child pornography. since the beginning of the great war, the security service has exposed more than 60 clerics of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate. two convicted abbots have already been exchanged for ukrainian soldiers who were in captive in particular, it is about a cleric of the northern donetsk eparchy. in april last year, he handed over to the russians members of the resistance movement, as well as a collaborator in ryas from the horliv diocese. he cooperated with the occupiers after the capture of liman. the russians throw summer landing troops to storm melitopol. direction, this was reported by the spokesman of the joint press center of the defense forces of the tavriz region oleksandr shtopun. assaults are unsuccessful and the next enemy unit is thrown in place of the dead. at the same time

servants of the people, well, they say that they did not really support the idea of ​​banning the uocp there would only be one ocu, and the ptu is, as it were , poroshenko's church, and i was surprised that he was not even that, who did not laugh, he almost took it completely seriously and said that this could be the reason for the idea... the creation of a second transitional church would be good, if there was also another transitional church, i said, maybe we can call it, for example, zpu, the orthodox church of ukraine, well, somehow he didn't laugh either, this one scared me a little reaction, well, but, you know, briefly, if briefly, because we don’t have enough already, very briefly, this is just a strong indication of professionalism and the fact that it is necessary to be professionals in every case, so that there are no such ones, we started with you the conversation about the survey by maryana bezugli, let's end the conversation with a survey too, because while she, yes, she did a new survey, she asked whether people wanted the death of people's elected officials, now she ask

particular, about the fact that the people's deputies collected 250 signatures regarding the banning of the uocp, and when the law will finally be passed, well, and also there, arestovych spoke to a rather popular polish publication. such that the hair is standing on end and we will talk about it, well, and we will also talk about andrii and about the scandals around nabu, yes, you wanted to talk about it, let's talk, let's summarize a little about the various stories that are happening in ukraine during this week, but it will be after a short break, stay tuned. there are 15% discounts on lactil in the travel bam and oshkad pharmacies, there are discounts on bulgarian valerian tablets, 15% in podorozhnyk, bam and oshkad pharmacies. tired of heavy and bulky forks, then the compact and powerful strongg saw from unpack tv is just for you. now you can easily trim trees and bushes. the strongg saw is so convenient to use for carpentry. this is an ideal tool for your home or garden, and the price is only 1499 uah, also a reliable battery is included, cut branches, cut a beam, chop firewood, you will d

202 signatures in the parliament for the banning of the russian orthodox church, which is called the uocp in ukraine, and your faction, well, it seems to be full, the homeland is divided there, european solidarity in full staff, well, there are barely 150 servants of the people being recruited and now the selection of votes is going on, what do you think, the prospect of this ban and what needs to be done now so that these votes are clearly 226 plus, please, well, we have already come a long way in you remember, this discussion in the verkhovna rada actually began in the first months of the large-scale invasion, while it should be understood that the banning of the church is not just a legal decision of the verkhovna rada, a lot more actions need to be done, and fortunately for these almost two a lot has been done over the years, well for example, there is control over the kyiv-pechersk lavra, which was taken back by the state of ukraine, a huge number of priests in cassocks. prosecuted for the cases against them, and it is very important that these are not just some vague accusations, bu

ukraine be cleared of kremlin agents in ryas, the verkhovna rada finally gathered votes to ban the uocpon with the west, putin cannot win the war, but he does not know how to get out of it either. we will talk about this and other things today for the next hour with people's deputy of ukraine oleksiy honchar.

verkhovna rada was actively, well, discussed at. the adoption of a law on limiting the activities of the uocphe parliamentary committee, and somehow it got stuck, we then thought, well , it would be interesting to see what the church owns, and how did you calculate that some, and we calculated, well, very simply, we took the list, asked our colleagues from view control to download all legal entities that are mentioned, well, where is the word orthodox. after that we took this list, well, we cleaned it from the kyiv patriarchate, there is an autocephalous one, there are many independent communities, old believers, well, that is , we cleaned this list as much as possible from those who are not in the pcp, only those who, one way or another, indicate in their name, yes, and if there is, for example, i know such cases when the russian church, and the land is simply decorated and the building itself is decorated simply in the usual way, and this is a problem, it is not indicated here on this map, because it is exclusively that which is extracted from ukrainian registers, which part is approximatel

verkhovna rada was actively, well, discussing the adoption of a law on limiting the activities of the uocp. it passed the parliamentary committee and somehow it got stuck, we then thought, well, it would be interesting to see what it has church, and how did you calculate that some, and we calculated, well, very simply, we took a list, asked our colleagues from viewl, to download all legal entities, where it is mentioned, well, where there is the word orthodox, after that we took this list, well, we cleaned it from , the kyiv patriarchate there, autocephalous, there are many independent communities , old believers, well, that is , they cleaned this list as much as possible from those who are not in the pcp, only those who in one way or another mention o in their name remained, right? and if there are, for example, i know such cases when the russian church, and the land is just plain and the buildings themselves are registered just for natural persons, that is also a problem, but there are the words of the orthodox, of course, and this is a problem here on these maps it is not indicated, bec

bring order in this area, already using the new legislation, and who the biggest opponents of the uocprently in the parliament, are those people who defend to the end that there is no right to ban and no need to ban, there are people who are, let 's say, agents of influence, because they relate directly to this one from ukrainian churches, yes, so there are people who are simply confused, bewildered by false interpretations of what this law is about, this law is not about a specific church, this law is not about religion, this law is not about faith, it is a law about religious organizations , any, which ukrainian religious organizations, none rights during the war to the survival of the ukrainian state and nation, cannot have any connections with religious organizations subordinate to the enemy. thank you, thank you very much, mr. nikita, for being involved and taking the time. mykyta puturaya, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on humanitarian and information policy. we raised two issues in our conversation, the issue of probable elections in ukraine