MP: Authorities examining UOC’s status based on Russian documents

Mykyta Poturaev. Photo: Detector Media

People's Deputy and head of the Council's Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy Mykyta Poturaev, in an interview with Lviv media, stated that the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) has begun studying the status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church “according to the canons of the country that their elder brothers in Moscow are trying to rebuild.”

Poturaev said that the UOC can talk as much as they want about prayers for soldiers and independence from the ROC, but the statements of Russian representatives completely negate those claims. And, as the deputy implied, the Ukrainian authorities tend to believe the words of the Russians: “When they make such statements, then someone from the leadership of the so-called Russian Federation comes out and says: ‘No, this is our Church, we are protecting it, this is our main condition.’”

“There is no trust in all these statements from the UOC, because if these... bastards from across the curb protect them so zealously, then what value do they have precisely as an extension of that Kremlin hand, dirty and stained with the blood of the Ukrainian people,” the deputy said.

He stated that DESS, in accordance with law 3894, has already begun studying the UOC’s status. According to him, the Yelensky structure intends to examine this status based on Russian documents.

“They are currently studying it according to the canons of the country that their older brothers in Moscow are trying to rebuild,” Poturaev concluded figuratively.

Earlier, the UPJ wrote that, according to Poturaev, those who are against the law banning the UOC threaten Ukraine's national security.

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