“Prayer procession” – Easter provocation from the SBU

Metropolitan Onufriy of Kiev announced his intention to hold a “prayer procession” from the city of Orekhov, Zaporozhye region, to the Azovstal plant in Mariupol in order to “provide medical assistance” and “take out civilians and wounded military personnel.”

This is a provocation of the SBU, in which, under pressure, the top of the UOC-MP agreed to participate, writes Aleksey Selivanov, a former adviser to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and now the new head of the police of Energodar, occupied by Russian troops, in an author’s column for PolitNavigator.

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...They write that about 30 priests and deacons of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate have already left for Mariupol to participate in the “prayer procession” blessed by Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv.

_{Onuphry asks “everyone on whom it depends” to organize a ceasefire and “to provide a humanitarian corridor for the said prayer procession.”}

Now let's decipher the meaning of this initiative. “Everyone on whom it depends” are Russian troops and DPR soldiers. Onuphry (or, rather, the SBU officer who wrote the appeal!) will not call them by their proper names. “Wounded servicemen” are Ukrainian Nazis from “Azov”. Yes, Nazis, neo-pagans, foreign mercenaries and other rabble, from which today Ukrainian and Western propaganda is hastily molding heroes, right in the midst of assigning them extraordinary titles (like Hitler to Field Marshal Paulus) and making them “heroes of Ukraine.”

Civilians do not need any “corridor” or “ceasefire regime”. Because the fire in Mariupol stopped long ago. Residents are provided with medical care, and they already have the opportunity to go wherever they want. At least to Berdyansk, at least to Donetsk, at least to Crimea or Zaporozhye.

The city of Mariupol is tightly occupied by Russian and DPR troops. The Nazis from Azov and the Armed Forces of Ukraine remained only in the basements of Azovstal. Where Onuphrius sends a “prayer procession”. This means he understands why and, most importantly, to whom it is being sent. Sitting in the basements, the Nazis hide behind a group of civilians they have driven into the basement - the families of the plant workers. But the “Azovites” won’t let them out so easily. Otherwise, they will have no one to hide behind.

_{Metropolitan Onufriy and the UOC-MP, unfortunately, today is under heavy pressure from the SBU. And, apparently, they are bending.}

Let's call everything by its proper name. The “prayer procession” is a provocation. “Ceasefire regime,” despite such a peaceful name, unfortunately, is also a provocation. Because the Easter Truce is in the interests of only the Nazis. The “Easter Truce” means several days of continuous supplies of American howitzers, fighters and drones to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to kill Russians.

It is characteristic, by the way, that the SBU demands to organize a “prayer procession” and an “Easter truce” from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. And not from their pocket “Epiphany”, Greek Catholics or “Filaret” Denisenko. Because the UOC-MP, Metropolitan Onuphry, is at least a Church. Russians respect her. But here is exactly the case when the Russians will not cave. As in the wonderful song: “Everyone caved in, including the brothers in Christ. Everyone caved in, but not my country" The “bent” brothers in Christ are the functionaries of the UOC-MP. But my country, my Russians, will not bend.

Because they understand that the core of Nazis from the Azovstal basements must be destroyed or captured. But they were not released to Kyiv under the robes of priests. Because a killed or captured Nazi demotivates his comrades. And a Nazi, released, becomes a Ukrainian deity and hero for Ukrainian propaganda. A role model for thousands of Ukrainian degenerates.

The provocateurs are counting on the fact that Russian Orthodox people from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR will either allow the “procession” to “Azov” out of respect, or they will not approve this “procession.” And then it will be possible, through the mouths of speakers from the UOC, to curse the Russians and reproach them for being unorthodox and inhuman. Which, by the way, is already being done. And this confirms that the crafty SBU scheme did not work.