Strelkov spoke about betrayal in the UOC-MP
Some priests of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate who cared for the Donbass militias were subject to sanctions. At the same time, there are representatives of the UOC-MP who, without any consequences, blessed the Ukrainian punitive forces before the so-called. ATO.
Ex-Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Girkin (Strelkov) stated this during a public meeting, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In Ukraine, Orthodox Christians fought on both sides in 2014, and there were pagans on both sides. In one of the companies, a battalion was then commanded by a fighter with the call sign Thor, a Cossack from the Kuban, he was a pagan, and he didn’t hide it, a group of pagans arrived there with him. And on the other side, the pagans fought as part of the national battalions. But both there and here they were a minority. Mostly formal Orthodox Christians fought against each other.
The priests of the UOC, which, as you know, are part of the Russian Orthodox Church, at the level of metropolitans, bishops and just ordinary priesthood, blessed the Ukrainians to go kill their own in the Donbass.
Only a few brave priests, on their own initiative, blessed the militias, for which they received, including here on the territory of the Russian Federation, up to a ban on service, temporary or long-term, and removed rectors from churches,” Strelkov said.
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