OCU propagandist: Without UOC parishioners the world will be better and safer

Mishchenko surrounded by Patriarch Bartholomew and Serhii Dumenko. Photo: Mishchenko’s Facebook

The propagandist of the OCU, Yaroslava Mishchenko (Samokhvalova), who was one of the leading media figures during the creation of the OCU, declared that without the parishioners of the UOC Ukraine “will definitely become better.”

“I am very glad that for ten years the authorities have been keeping to this course of cleansing the spiritual space. And I sincerely embrace the ‘minister of religions’ Viktor Yelensky, whose program for dismantling the MP was in fact adopted and proved optimal,” Mishchenko wrote.

According to her, “we dreamed of banning this structure for many years, from the very annexation of Crimea.” Mishchenko said that she and her colleagues had repeatedly invited the clergy and faithful of the UOC into the OCU but were refused.

“I see godless bishops manipulating believers, narrow-minded priests, trusting elderly faithful who march on pilgrimages and see the enemy not in Putin but in the heads of the Ukrainian Church and the state,” she said.

She reminded Yelensky of his words spoken in 2022 that the UOC “has no place on our land.” Mishchenko lamented that although de jure the UOC will cease to exist in Ukraine, “de facto this community will continue until the very last believer, and it is unlikely to be restored.”

“When this is finally accomplished, I will say to myself and everyone: we have done what was almost impossible. There was no other way. Glory to God. Our world without them will certainly be better. And safer,” Mishchenko declared.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that according to an OCU theologian, the faithful of the UOC will soon be praying in basements.

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