Expert: Unification of people will occur with the efforts of UOC

Political analyst Alexey Kalinichenko. Photo: First Cossack

Over the past few years, Ukrainian society has been very fragmented and split, so unification can occur only through the efforts of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, said political analyst Alexei Kalinichenko on the First Cossack channel.

The expert stressed that the conflict between the OCU and the UOC-KP exacerbates the split between people.

“I will tell you who will lose in this conflict. In this conflict, the state of Ukraine is already losing and the Ukrainian people are losing. Because they are forced to be watching these battles which lead, first of all, to a split society,” Kalinichenko shared with the journalist.

The reason for such a split is that among the adherents of the new church structure there are supporters of the Tomos and head of the OCU Epiphany, and there are admirers of the idea of ​​the Kiev Patriarchate and its "patriarch of Kiev and All Rus-Ukraine" Filaret Denisenko, the expert noted.

“This all leads only to one thing – to a split society, which we has been so much broken and splintered for several years now that we cannot expect anything good. <...> Oblivion awaits the OCU. This will not happen tomorrow, of course. The fact is that an artificially born thing can hardly take root in the society being so fragmented. Most likely, after all, the unification of people will take place against the background and thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. What has been passed down to generations for many centuries in Ukraine will probably prevail,” he concluded.

Recall that on June 25, 2019, the patriarch of Kiev and All Rus-Ukraine announced that he had quit the OCU and announced the resumption of the activity of the Synod of the UOC-KP. “It includes all the hierarchs who are bishops of the Kiev Patriarchate. Five of them,” Filaret said.

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