The UOC Primate (MP) Onufri met with captured Russians and wished "God would protect all people on the battlefield"
Onufri Video has made several statements about the war. In particular, he urged the captives of the Russians to transfer home that the war should be stopped and that Ukrainians want peace. “I want to wish the Lord to bring you back to your homeland, family. To see mothers, sisters, wives, children, brothers, friends. I would like you to tell them the following words: we do not want the war that is in Ukraine today. We do not want our cities to collapse, towns, to die our people and your people.
We do not want mothers in Ukraine or Russia to meet their dead sons and cried bitter, disappointing tears over them. This should be stopped, it can be stopped, ”the Metropolitan said, addressing the captives of Russian soldiers. Onufri said that it was possible to "stop" the fighting with the word of love, that "Ukrainians and Russians live in peace and harmony. " “We need to find the word of love that could make the guns stop, stop the missiles. We want peace.
Our UOC did everything to make the Russian and Ukrainian peoples live in peace, harmony and love. It turned out as it turned out. But even if evil happens, it should be stopped. May the Lord give our rulers the courage, the mind, the wisdom of finding the word of love that all evil stops, ”said the head of the Church, which has recently referred to the Moscow Patriarchate.
Further, Metropolitan Onufri asked God's blessing for "all people" on the "battlefield" "I want God to protect you, all the people who are on the battlefield. War is not the one that can achieve unity between peoples, between families. Violence is unable to create unity, unity is created by love. And love is God. The one who prays and performs the divine commandments is a man of God. May God bless our lands peace, ”the UOC Primate emphasized.
At the same time, he repeated the thesis of the Kremlin propaganda about the allegedly common spiritual roots of Ukrainians and Russians. “I do not know whether you understand or not, but it should not be. Can't kill each other. Death does not benefit anyone, but only grief in every home. To make the peoples who came out of a single baptismal fox with each other is a shame. And we have to do everything to keep this madness, ”Onufri summed up.
The Archbishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn Orthodox Church of Ukraine Evstratye responded to the statement of Onufri. "It turned out as it turned out," - these words of the head of the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate sound "as if justification before those who came to capture us," said Evstratius Zorya. Onufri's saying "I want God to protect you, all the people who are on the battlefield" Evstratius evaluates that "Metropolitan Onufri wants the occupants of God's security.
" Condemns the representative of the PCU and the phrase of the head of the UOC (MP) on "war with each other". “There is no“ with each other ”. Such words are in fact the formula of the Civil War, the Kremlin narrative, which, by the way, and personally promoted, telling about it - "civic" - war [in the Donbass] . . . In fact, Russia is fighting against Ukraine. Russia attacked Ukraine. Russia occupied part of its territory and wants to occupy even more.
As soon as Russia leaves our land and returns to the borders, the agreement of which it itself has signed - the war will end. And the expression of Onufri equates two sides, as if they are equally guilty or equally innocent, ” - sums up Archbishop Chernihiv and Nizhyn PCCU Yevstratii.
Are they baptized from Moscow? What happened with the UOC (MP) after the start of the full -scale war on May 28, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) gathered the cathedral in Kiev on the issues of church life that arose after the commencement of the full -scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Cathedral of the UOC stated that he condemned the war and disagrees with the position of Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kiril about war in Ukraine.
In addition, the UOC (MP) announced changes for "complete independence and independence" of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. After the start of the full -scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kiril actually supported Russia's aggression and blessed the Russian military for war in Ukraine. In April, Kiril made a speech at the Russian Armed Forces, where he praised Russian soldiers and questioned Ukraine's independence.
In response, hundreds of priests of the UOC (MP) demanded to give Kiril to the church tribunal because of his position on the war in Ukraine. In April, the clergy gathered more than 400 signatures under the relevant call. At the same time, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine called on bishops, clergy, monasteries and religious communities of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate to join the PCU. Dozens of communities of the UOC -MP have already joined the PCU.