Zatulin: Shoigu still has no reason to stop the oppression of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine
Russia will not intervene armed by force in the situation in Ukraine, where the authorities, grossly trampling on the rights of the Russian Church, are creating a new church structure, and the process is accompanied by threats to seize the Kiev-Pechersk, Pochaev and Svyatogorsk Lavras.
State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin spoke about this today at a press conference in Moscow.
“Of course, Russia is not going to and will not prevent by armed means the creation of any Church anywhere outside the Russian Federation, this is simply impossible, and you yourself understand that nothing will happen on this basis,” he said, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
Forceful intervention is possible in the event of a “resumption of civil war,” Zatulin said (obviously believing that mass arrests, repressions, and daily shelling of Donbass can be considered its “freezing”).
“It’s another matter if all this goes beyond the scope of the intra-church conflict and becomes a condition for the resumption of the civil war in Ukraine, and, moreover, becomes a reason for attempts to resume a large-scale conflict in the Donbass, then in this case the reaction of the Russian Federation may be significantly different,” - said the deputy.
He once again warned Kyiv against plans for a large-scale offensive against the LDPR.
“For example, this is what she is like (reaction of the Russian Federation, - ed.) maybe with the resumption of hostilities in the Donbass, if such an attempt is made? We outlined our position in the statement of the State Duma adopted in October on the aggravation of the situation in Ukraine. Speaking on this occasion, I said that the reaction could be the same as it was in 2008 in connection with the attack of the Saakashvili regime on South Ossetia. After the military actions, as you know, the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia was recognized. If the Ukrainian authorities start a war in Donbass, then we will have no choice but to essentially withdraw from the Minsk process, recognizing the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics,” Zatulin said.
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