Shevchuk: Russians destroy Ukrainians just as the Nazis destroyed the Jews
Shevchuk received by the King of Norway. Photo: UGCC
Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, during an audience with King Harald V of Norway, drew a parallel between Russia’s actions in Ukraine and the Nazi Holocaust.
“Russia has declared that this war aims to ‘finally resolve the Ukrainian question,’ just as Nazi Germany sought to resolve the Jewish one,” Shevchuk stated during a meeting of the delegation from the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations with the royal couple at the Royal Palace.
He emphasized that all members of the church delegation were and remain on Russia’s execution lists. “The very fact that we stand before you today is a miracle. Russian troops stopped just a few kilometers from our churches and homes in Kyiv. If Ukraine had been occupied, we would no longer exist,” the head of the UGCC affirmed.
In response, King Harald V recalled that he himself had been a refugee at the age of three, when his family fled from the German occupiers. Queen Sonja expressed her wish that Ukraine might soon experience the same joy of liberation that Norwegians felt after the Germans left.
The delegation presented the King with a painting depicting Jesus Christ praying amid the aftermath of Russian terrorist attacks – the railway station in Kramatorsk. The painting was created on wooden boxes from weapons supplied by Norway to Ukraine.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that, according to Shevchuk, Catholics have saved the lives of millions of Ukrainians.
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