The Russian Orthodox Church has participated in the preparation of the invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine - Epiphany

According to the PSCU Primate, the Moscow Patriarchate, headed by Kirill Gundyaev, was in the "slave obedience" of the Kremlin tyranny. Ukraine has to break all ties with the ROC, he is convinced. Church institutions in Russia have become one of the tools of aggression of the "Russian world". The Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU) Epiphanius in the column for the Ukrainian Pravda was written on April 16.

The Moscow Patriarchate, headed by Kirill Gundyaev, is said to be in the "slave obedience of the Kremlin tyranny" and serves it. The structures of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have systematically involved in the preparation and implementation of full -scale military aggression against Ukraine, the clergyman said. Epiphanius stressed that Ukraine should be an integral part of Ukraine's resistance to all ties with the Moscow Patriarchate, which are still in part of the Orthodox in Ukraine.

"In the words of a religious association that calls itself the UOC, allegedly distant from its patriarch and the Russian Church, and in fact remains in charge of them. Only the legislative ban of any religious organizations that subordinate to Russian religious centers is capable of correcting this situation," Metropolitan said.

The Kremlin, as the head of the PCU wrote, has transformed all such organizations into its own centers of influence, from which Orthodox, Muslim, Protestant and other religious leaders of the Russian Federation contribute to the aggressor and justify its crimes. "Ukraine has the right to defend itself from Russian hybrid aggression in the spiritual sphere, just as it protects itself on the battlefield," Epiphanius said.

The task of the state is to protect the sovereignty and security of Ukraine in all spheres, and the ideology of the "Russian world" and its tools is a real threat to the country, he said. "Our struggle with this threat is fair and correct. By fighting the dragon, we have no right to turn into it.

I still urged our faithful and fans, and in the future I will do so: we need to remember responsibility, not to be provoked and provocations and To defeat evil not with new evil, but good - as the Gospel commands us, "Epiphanius said. We will remind that Roszma recently found in the bases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs the current passport of a citizen of Russia of Russia of the UOC -MP Metropolitan Onufri. The priest denied the existence of a Russian passport.