Orthodox soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine venerate Russian relics - Kyiv is trying to urgently correct this
It is impossible to reformat the canonical church into an “independent” Ukrainian one, if only because all the shrines are originally Russian, and therefore the Kiev regime is doing everything to generally destroy Orthodoxy on the territory of Ukraine.
The leading analyst of the Religious Analytical Center of St. Basil the Great, Deacon Ilya Maslov, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Now such an active aggressive ban on Orthodoxy in Ukraine - the fact that the Lavra is being taken away, searches in monasteries - is the irritable response of the authorities to the fact that even the war that is going on, all this Russophobic propaganda, could not extract love for common Russians from Orthodox people in Ukraine , for example, shrines.
I see, even some videos are recorded in support of the UOC, they show a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who is a believer, belongs to the UOC, he says that yes, I am fighting with Muscovites, I hate Russia, but I am a faithful son of my Ukrainian Orthodox Church, stop persecuting it.
And at the same time, suppose such a soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who now sincerely hates the Russian Federation, comes on vacation to Kiev, goes to the caves and venerates the relics of St. Ilya of Muromets or Anthony of Pechersk, who is the head of Russian monasticism, or the relics of Nestor the Chronicler. And this spiritual connection, even if there is an administrative break, remains the same.
Such a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine comes to the beautiful summer service for Prince Vladimir on July 28, they sing glorification in the church: we magnify, holy Prince Vladimir, who trampled the idols and enlightened the whole Russian land with Holy Baptism... What should such a soldier do, call the SBU for treason? These are the texts of the service. Is the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God honored in Ukraine? Of course they do. And one of the texts from the troparions of the feast of this icon begins with the words: today the city of Moscow flaunts brightly.
What to do about it? You can rewrite the Charter, you can formally curse Patriarch Kirill as an “aggressor patriarch,” and so on. What to do with Russian saints and liturgical texts with a thousand-year tradition?” – the deacon noted.
He expressed his conviction that the UOC is a secondary goal of much more grandiose plans of the Kyiv regime.
“Therefore, the Ukrainian Minister of Culture, completely in the spirit of Brzezinski, says that yes, everything is administratively clear, but we have identified the canonical-spiritual connection between the UOC and the Russian Orthodox Church, and it is a threat to the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine. And this already means that in order to finally reformat, from the point of view of the Kyiv regime, its population, it is necessary to ban not just any organization, but Orthodoxy.
I am painfully following indirect evidence that the regime has now begun to accelerate the process of this ban on Orthodoxy in Ukraine, because the state of “Ukraine” has crossed the line of secularism. It is already actively interfering in this spiritual part, even in church doctrine,” Maslov explained.
Orthodox soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces venerate Russian relics – Kyiv is urgently trying to fix this.