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Ukrainians who publicly declare their sympathy for the schismatic "Kyiv Patriarchate" are quietly attending churches of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This was stated by Verkhovna Rada deputy Viktor Yelensky on the ZIK television channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

According to him, opinion polls show that there are significantly more pro-KP supporters in words than there are actually church parishioners.

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“We see that there are 12 thousand registered communities of the Moscow Patriarchate. More than the “Kyiv Patriarchate”. And there are many more people who say that they belong to the “Kyiv patriarchy”.

What does it mean? This may mean that people who are asked which patriarchy you belong to are thereby declaring their identity, and their identity is Ukrainian.

But I checked this, and it turns out that in practice, if you compare those who say “we are of the Moscow Patriarchate” and those who are “Kiev”, their practices are the same - the number of church visits, the number of prayers, the amount of financial support for their churches. the same.

This may mean that many of those who say that they belong to the “Kyiv Patriarchate” go to the churches of the Moscow Patriarchate because there are no others near them. But they don’t want to admit it,” Yeletsky said.