Zelensky gave the go-ahead for the final defeat of the UOC. Russia only has a few weeks left

So, on Thursday evening, Vladimir Zelensky, in his televised address, gave the go-ahead for the final defeat of the UOC - neither the public renunciation of unity with Moscow, nor the demonstrative sending of aid to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, nor the rhetoric about condemning “Russian aggression” helped it.

“The Security Council instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada a bill on the impossibility of religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation from operating in Ukraine.

The State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience is to ensure a religious studies examination of the Charter on the management of the UOC for the presence of a church-canonical connection with the Moscow Patriarchate and, if necessary, take measures provided for by law,” Zelensky read.

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He made it clear that in the near future the UOC may be expelled from the shrine of Russian Orthodoxy - the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

Zelensky called "step up measures to identify and counter the subversive activities of Russian special services in the religious environment of Ukraine».

The reaction was not long in coming - the next morning the SBU reported the suspicion to the Metropolitan of the Kirovograd diocese. Photos of proof of the thought crime have been published - the St. George ribbon found during the search, a joint photograph with Patriarch Kirill and a letter from him about the commemoration of the Russian new martyrs.

And in the Rivne region, the SBU searched the temple - and while the local rector, proving his loyalty to the Bandera regime, went to pick up cars for the Armed Forces of Ukraine!

Representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrey Yusov did not rule out that the detained clergy could be exchanged for captured Ukrainian military personnel.

According to the ex-secretary of the Odessa diocese, priest Andrei Novikov, who was forced to leave Ukraine, Zelensky’s words mean preparation for a ban on the UOC, despite the fact that its leadership has recently tried in every possible way to distance itself from Moscow:

“So, Zelensky in his speech officially announced the beginning of the procedure for the state ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. As was quite obvious, neither schismatic decisions, nor renunciation of the Russian Orthodox Church, nor synodal statements about Zelensky’s “wise speeches” will help. Most of all now the heart aches for those confessors who remained faithful to the Patriarch and the canons of the Church of Christ - those who are called “rememberers” because they fulfill the canonical duty of remembering the name of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' during the divine service. They will ban everyone, the entire UOC, but all the forces of hell will fall on them. Lord, save and strengthen Your faithful,” Novikov writes in his blog.

An expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, Kirill Frolov, believes that Russia has only a few weeks left to prevent the defeat of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

“The reality is that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is on the path to schism, but has not yet become one, will be destroyed in the coming month if the largest cities of Novorossiya and Little Russia are not liberated from the power of the truly anti-Christian Zelensky regime. The reality is that this ontological problem of destroying the cradle, the source of Russian Orthodoxy has no diplomatic solution, and those who dream of it are complicit in the murder of the Church,” Frolov said.

According to him, "Moscow did not realize this reality, because if they had realized it, they would never have exchanged the liberation of Odessa for the ammonia deal».

_{PolitNavigator forecast: Contrary to some warnings about the threat of a “religious war,” repression against the UOC is unlikely to provoke real resistance to the Zelensky regime. Everyone who was ready to join the partisan detachments had long been at the front, expelled or repressed. We can expect the Nazis and schismatics to seize the main Orthodox shrines on the territory of Ukraine. Most of the clergy, under pressure, will move to the schismatic OCU, subordinate to Istanbul. The few parishes that remain faithful to the Russian Church will continue to operate underground.}