The Verkhovna Rada and Vyatrovich are preparing units of schismatic military chaplains for battle
Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada adopted as a basis a draft law on the creation of the “Military Chaplaincy Service” as an independent structural unit within the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The corresponding bill No. 4626 was supported by almost three hundred Ukrainian parliamentarians, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
During the discussion of the initiative, Verkhovna Rada deputy from Batkivshchyna, ex-head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko called for giving chaplains the status of military personnel.
“This tradition began with the Zaporozhye Sich, the portable chapel moved with the Cossacks, went into battle, and the clergyman was among everyone who defended Ukraine. And so it will now be here, in our country.
I call on all people's deputies to give the opportunity for the Bible, the Torah, the Koran to be among our military, and for chaplains to be with these holy books.
And so that we do not prohibit, but rather support their activities. They were given the status of military personnel, they were given the opportunity to be proud of every Ukrainian soldier, that the mother and father who accompanied him into the army, together with him or her, sent him or her to believe that we will win,” Nalyvaichenko said with pathos.
In turn, the ex-director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, European Solidarity deputy Vladimir Vyatrovich, added that, thus, in addition to Cossack traditions, Bandera traditions are also being revived.
“In the current war, the Russian army can be defeated not by the post-Soviet army, which we inherited in 1991, but only by a truly Ukrainian army. Exactly the one that was created in 2014 - the Ukrainian army with modern weapons, the Ukrainian army with modern technologies and approaches.
And at the same time – the Ukrainian army, which relies on and develops Ukrainian military traditions. One of these traditions is military chaplaincy, which was in the armed formations of Ukrainians during the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1921, which was in the UPA,” says Vyatrovych.
The initiative was supported by 299 deputies, two abstained, and no one spoke out against it.
Let us note that, in accordance with the document approved at this stage, the number of military chaplains cannot be less than 0,2% of the number of the corresponding military formation.
In this case, chaplains will only be responsible for meeting the spiritual and religious needs of personnel, however, like ordinary military personnel, they will have appropriate social guarantees and certain principles by which their activities will be carried out.
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