MP on court’s reversal of DESS "review" on UOC: shock for all sane citizens

Oksana Savchuk. Photo: Savchuk's Facebook

MP Oksana Savchuk of the Svoboda party sharply criticized the ruling of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal annulling the DESS religious studies review that claimed to have established a link between the UOC and Moscow. In her Facebook post, Savchuk called the decision “betrayal” and “a shock for all sane citizens.”

Savchuk mistakenly wrote that the review had been prepared after the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law banning the UOC – in fact, it was produced a year and a half before the vote, in January 2023 – and emphasized that the judges who issued the ruling were from Donetsk Region.

The MP also recalled Budanov’s statement that referring to the UOC as the “Moscow Patriarchate” is manipulation.

“This is not only about religion. This is about security. Recently, Head of the Office K. Budanov stated that the UOC-MP has no connection to the ROC. This court ruling is a shock to all conscious citizens who fully understand the scale of Russian special services’ influence through religion and through their priests, who glorify Muscovy and Putin. I believe pro-Ukrainian politicians and society must state a clear and unequivocal national position; we have no right to remain silent here,” Savchuk urged.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that the DESS had challenged the court ruling overturning the UOC review.

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