Ukrainian nationalists are calling for the seizure of churches of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. Writer Vasily Shklyar stated this on the radio “Voice of Freedom”.
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According to him, communities should warn security forces and local authorities, and if they refuse to give them the keys to churches, they should act independently, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The majority wants the Ukrainian Church of the “Kyiv Patriarchate,” and the minority, some 5%, maybe 10%, want the Moscow one. And this Moscow force, cotton wool, they are much more aggressive than the Ukrainians. Ukrainians are so humble, “the truth will win, it will happen somehow, we’ll wait,” but they don’t wait - they came, took the keys, “our church,” and that’s it. Because of this, it is somehow necessary for the community to take everything into its own hands and not wait for any instructions. Let's go and contact the police or the district council. If you didn’t listen to them, do it yourself, you have every right to act at your own discretion if the authorities don’t listen to you,” Shklyar said.
Recall that Shklyar received the Shevchenko Prize during the time of Viktor Yanukovych for the xenophobic and anti-Semitic novel Black Raven.