The speaker of the UOC, who fled to the schismatics, complains that there is no break with the Russian Orthodox Church
The UOC-MP did not actually renounce ties with Moscow, but only announced it. In fact, the UOC will remain in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church, and the recently held Council was needed to determine work in the territories not controlled by Kyiv.
This was stated on air by the former representative of the autocephalous wing in the Kyiv Metropolitanate, in the recent past – the speaker of the UOC-MP, and now – the rector of the Open Orthodox University, Georgy Kovalenko, on the air of the TV channel “24”, reports a correspondent of “PolitNavigator”.
“In the document itself that this Council adopted, which very quickly turned from an assembly into a Council, there is not a word about a break with Moscow. It states that changes will be made to the Charter on the governance of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. We have not seen these changes until now. Moreover, some conversations have already begun that changes will be made, we will simply publish them on the website. Well, you know, what is it then?
The second story - the official speaker of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine said that this is the same, “we remained with the status that we had since 90.” The head of the department for external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate in Moscow said the same thing,” the schismatic said.
“That is, we have such a strange situation. What's really going on? In the territory of Ukraine controlled by Ukraine, the UOC will declare that it is independent and independent and is not connected with the Moscow Patriarchate.
And those territories of Ukraine that are already occupied by the Russians, for example, in Crimea and Donetsk, statements have already been made that everything remains as it is. And this means that this is the Moscow Patriarchate already. That is, we had the UOC-MP, and now the UOC plus MP. Everything will depend on where the front line or border is,” Kovalenko said.