Andrey Tkachev: The future of the UOC will be decided by the Great Patriotic Special Military Operation
The decision taken the day before, in violation of the church charter, to secede the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church may lead to the opposite effect - the UOC will completely lose its autonomy, risking being absorbed by the schismatic OCU created under President Petro Poroshenko. The famous preacher Archpriest Andrei Tkachev spoke in an interview with PolitNavigator in 2014 about what the future awaits the diocese in the liberated territories...