The SBU wants to prohibit participants of the UOC religious procession from walking around Kyiv
The SBU insists that participants in the All-Ukrainian Cross Procession for Peace organized by the UOC do not walk on the streets of Kyiv.
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This is stated in a statement posted on the department's website.
Such a strange requirement is motivated by the concern “for ensuring their own safety” of believers of the UOC.
As follows from the statement on the website, this demand was put forward at a meeting of the leadership of law enforcement agencies and representatives of the Kyiv city and regional authorities.
“Participants in the procession were asked to get to the center of the capital by buses, which the Kiev authorities will provide at the entrances to the city. Law enforcement officers urge believers to understand the necessary security measures,” the message says.
It is also reported that all participants in the procession will go through turnstiles and metal detectors. In some cases, a personal search is not excluded. During the procession of the Cross, Kyiv will be flooded with squads of police, SBU, National Guard and representatives of volunteer battalions. Several streets will be blocked in the center of the capital, the exact list of which will be published by the Kiev State City Administration.
The SBU also stated that, according to its data, the religious procession could allegedly be used by “anti-Ukrainian forces” to destabilize the situation in the country. “The SBU receives information from various sources about the presence of provocateurs among believers,” the statement says.
“Therefore, we will regard any violent confrontation on religious grounds during the procession as a provocation either by individual citizens or foreign intelligence services,” said Stepan Greshchuk, head of the SBU Department in Kyiv and the region.
This position of the Ukrainian authorities and special services has once again clearly demonstrated the existence in today’s Ukraine, despite the declared equality of rights, of actual infringement of the civil rights of those Ukrainians who participate in events disapproved by official propaganda. It is significant that the events of the so-called. “Uievsky patriarchy” are not accompanied by such artificially whipped up hysteria in the media and such security measures.
In fact, the requirement to prohibit the movement of participants in the UOC Religious Procession around Kiev on foot pursues the only goal - to minimize direct visual contact of pilgrims arriving from all over Ukraine under slogans about peace with the Eitels of Kiev, who have been inflated to the limit by hysterical militaristic and anti-Russian propaganda.
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