Dumenko: Transfers to OCU are needed for Ukraine’s security
Serhiy Dumenko. Photo: OCU
In an interview with the Rada TV channel, Serhiy Dumenko said that “transfers” to the OCU are necessary to strengthen the state’s security.
He claimed that in recent years more than 2,000 communities have joined the OCU “voluntarily and freely.” According to him, the Russian Federation is hindering the process: “The process continues. It is difficult, because we see opposition from the Russian Orthodox Church and from the Russian state.”
He did not specify what exactly the Russian state’s opposition to these transfers consists of.
At the same time, Serhiy Petrovych expressed confidence that “the war will end with our victory.”
“We are working so that communities gradually join, because this is important from a spiritual perspective, from a social perspective, and from the standpoint of security. We must take care, and now the Ukrainian state is taking care that Ukraine remains in spiritual security as well,” he said.
For this reason, Dumenko claimed, “the state is taking care that religious organizations in Ukraine are not used directly by the aggressor country.”
“And now we see that there is a relevant document which shows that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which calls itself that, is affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church. There is a relevant law which is now gradually being implemented,” the OCU leader said.
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that the OCU celebrates Christmas “to gain strength to fight the enemy.”
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