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Speaker of OCU comments on Filaret's Russian propaganda channel interview

08.07.2019, 10:35
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine responded to an interview Filaret gave to the Russian TV channel Rossija-24, where he criticized the Tomos and the activities of the OCU. It is reported by UA.NEWS.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine responded to an interview Filaret gave to the Russian TV channel Rossija-24, where he criticized the Tomos and the activities of the OCU. It is reported by UA.NEWS.

According to the Deputy Chairman of the Department of External Church relations of the OCU, Archbishop Yevstratiy (Zorya), Moscow humiliates and destroys Filaret, and the "disease" of the hierarch made him a Russian ally in the fight against the Tomos. The Archbishop stressed that the Kremlin special services retaliate against Filaret for breaking ties with them.

"Taking advantage of the Patriarch's illness, Moscow humiliates and destroys him, and he is incapable to understand it. Special services of the Kremlin take revenge for the fact that he once broke up with them. Now, many years later, there is an opportunity to retaliate, making it so that their enemy destroys and humiliates himself".

"We were the first and only Russian journalists with whom schismatic Denisenko agreed to meet"; "It turns out that the new June theses of Filaret repeat almost word for word everything that the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church talked about at the beginning of the religious and political project of the Tomos" – the Kremlin propagandist is happy to report ... All this clearly fits into the strategy of the MP in Ukraine," wrote the representative of the OCU, calling to pray for the health of Filaret.

In an interview with the propaganda channel, Filaret said that the Primate of the OCU and ex-President Petro Poroshenko betrayed him and reminded that he was supposed to govern the Church in Ukraine, while Metropolitan Epifaniy was to do it abroad. Journalists have already used phrases like "schismatic Denisenko," new "religious schism" and referred to Tomos as a "religious-political project".