Candles-Bullets Cycle

NSDC meeting. Photo: NSDC website

At the latest meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, F. Pronin, claimed that UOC churches across the country are financed from Russia. He said this was uncovered through an SBU investigation. No actual evidence was presented, but as we know, when it comes to church matters, the SBU simply 'cannot be wrong' – so let’s take their word for it.

Yet, let’s recall something else. Not long ago, we were assured that the financial situation in the UOC was exactly the opposite – that Ukrainian priests were sending money earned from Ukrainian parishioners to Moscow. The "metropolitan" of the OCU, Zinkevych, even claimed that candles bought in UOC churches funded the production of bullets in Russia, which were then used to kill Ukrainian soldiers.

So what does this mean now? Are these "Moscow candles" now being turned into Ukrainian bullets for Russian soldiers? Should this be considered a betrayal or a victory?

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