Poroshenko's TV channel stages provocation near Kyiv Theological Academy
Provocation against the UOC in a live broadcast by Petro Poroshenko's TV channel. Photo: a video screenshot of “Channel 5”
On April 25, 2023, “Channel 5” staged another live provocation against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the territory of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, reports the UOC Informational and Educational Department.
Around 10 a.m., a car arrived at the administrative building (No. 64) of the Kyiv Theological Academy, which was immediately approached by a camera crew from Channel 5. The journalist began to ask the driver questions on political topics. The man answered in the spirit of Russian propaganda. After that, he hastily left the car and fled in an unknown direction.
"The UOC Information and Education Department states that this incident is a pre-planned provocation of the Channel 5 journalists. We would like to point out that such an approach is a gross violation of journalistic standards and the Ukrainian law on mass media. We emphasize that the person who communicated with the Channel 5 journalist is not a monk or a cleric of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and has nothing to do with teachers or students of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary," the statement said.
The Information Department also noted that such actions of "Channel 5" reporters have been witnessed by "thousands of UOC believers on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" in recent weeks.
As reported, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, earlier said that Channel 5 is an enemy of the Ukrainian state.
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