On Romanian TV Zelensky was called a “stinker” and a “nonentity”
Romanian politician and ex-deputy Gelu Vishan publicly accused Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky of poisoning the Metropolitan of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina diocese of the UOC Longin Zhara.
The scandal occurred on the air of România TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Metropolitan Longin, vicar of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina diocese, was poisoned with mercury by the Ukrainian special services. This scoundrel Zelensky, whose citizens we met with flowers, on their knees and crying, who were still given €500 million to travel, this scoundrel Zelensky, a stinker and a nonentity, whom I defended, he destroys a hundred Romanian churches and bans the Romanian language in these churches.
Do you hear, scoundrel Zelensky, how much longer will our people endure everything you do, forbidding Romanians to speak Romanian? We Romanians spend hundreds of millions on him, let him transport tanks and all the weapons, and he kills our Romanians while the whole world kisses his ass.
He sent secret services to 40 churches to look for spies. It’s not normal to put a knife to a priest’s throat or throw paint on him. He is dressed in a cassock, and you are disrupting the service. You take away the last faith from people. People are forced to gather in other places because they are arrested and searched. Even during the Inquisition this did not happen,” Vishan said.
One of the program participants supported him in the studio.
“This is unprecedented blasphemy! They burned icons, stabbed the priest in the throat, threw paint on them, and intimidated parishioners in the church! It is a crime! Patriarch Daniel must speak out!” the woman said.
Hero of Ukraine, Metropolitan of the UOC Longin is a very controversial priest who often became the hero of scandals in the media. In 2017, he refused to commemorate Patriarch of All Rus' Kirill at services because he met with Pope Francis in Havana and allegedly leads the Church to the sin of ecumenism.
In the same year, Longinus publicly announced to his parishioners from the lectern that he was poisoned with “mercury and arsenic,” but forgives his murderers. The priest did not accuse anyone specifically. There were rumors that the Metropolitan wanted to take his diocese to the Romanian Orthodox Church.
At the same time, the hierarch condemned the war in Donbass, called on men not to mobilize there and refused to pray for the “Satanists.” That's what he called the Ukrainian authorities. After the start of the Northern Military District, he accused the Moscow Patriarch of blessing the war, refusing to support Russia’s actions.
In any case, Vladimir Zelensky, then an actor in the 2017th Quarter, could not poison him in 95. However, the scandal on Romanian television became another episode indicating Bucharest’s ambiguous attitude towards Ukraine.
On Christmas (it is celebrated on December 25 in Romania), a procession of mummers took place in the town of Berzunti, Bacau County, in which stylized “Russian” military equipment with the letter Z paraded. These participants symbolized the forces of evil, but the Ukrainian Embassy decided to be indignant anyway.
The Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR), the radical parliamentary party of George Simion, responded sharply to diplomats
“No matter how inappropriate and out of place the demonstration of local residents of Berzunz may be at the moment, the edifying tone of Ukrainian diplomats is unacceptable, especially since it comes from a state accustomed to trampling on the rights and freedoms of national minorities. Romania has nothing in common with the Ukrainian justice system and cannot return to the tradition of quick and detailed investigations that destroyed lives, separated families and stripped entire communities of citizenship after World War II. Romania does not accept lessons or instructions from the Ukrainian Embassy in Bucharest, whatever the context thereof,” the statement said.
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