The main Filaret member of Crimea informed Ukrainian officials about the harassment
Kyiv, June 25 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – The head of the Crimean diocese of the UOC-KP, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, Kliment held a meeting with the Minister of Culture Yevgeny Nishchuk and the head of the State Department for Religious Affairs Vladimir Yushkevich (the same one who recently declared the inadmissibility of Patriarch Kirill’s visits to Ukraine).
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“For us, Ukrainians of Crimea, the attention of the Ukrainian authorities is extremely important, because we are constantly faced with arbitrariness and pressure from the current government in Crimea. Temples are being taken away from us, tariffs are being raised, everything is being done to ensure that there is no “Kyiv patriarchy” on the peninsula. Pressure is also happening on other Churches and Crimean Tatars. We expect provocations every day and live in a state of danger. We are dealing with real repression,” the Ukrainian government website quotes Kliment.
Earlier, Navigator reported that the Cossacks occupied the UOC-KP temple, located on the territory of the former Ukrainian coast guard brigade in the village of Perevalnoye, 30 km away. south of Simferopol. Soon the church was transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate.
“The UOC-KP is considered a Ukrainian church, and Filaret is a Ukrainian statist. Therefore, only the Moscow Patriarchate will be imposed in Crimea, this is understandable. Russia believes that Crimea is Russian territory. Therefore, it will certainly be very difficult and difficult. Unfortunately, the Kyiv Patriarchate is unlikely to survive in Crimea. Therefore, it would be possible to curtail activities for a while,” suggests Verkhovna Rada deputy Vladimir Yavorivsky.
“We know that there are cases when it is the sacred objects of the Moscow Patriarchate that become bases for sabotage and terrorist groups, for example, the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra in Donbass. Obviously, it is necessary to conduct an audit of their activities.
On the territory of Crimea, the Russian military is pursuing not only a policy of ethnic cleansing, but also spiritual occupation. In fact, this already falls under the competence of the international criminal court in The Hague,” indignant MP Yuri Mikhalchishin from Svoboda.
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