Ukrainian Orthodox elders knew about the SVO back in the middle of the 20th century
Ukrainian Orthodox elders predicted hostilities between Ukraine and Russia back in the middle of the last century.
Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov of Pskov and Porkhov stated this in an interview with scandalous television journalist Ksenia Sobchak, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“It was the Ukrainian elders who warned, starting back in the 40s and 50s, that there would be a war between Ukraine and Russia, that there would be a split,” Shevkunov said.
As an example, he cited the words of Lavrenty Chernigovsky, who died in 1950, about the upcoming disorder and split. The Metropolitan admitted that Lawrence’s prophecies, which circulated in the lists, were perceived even in the Orthodox community as nonsense.
“But then more and more prophecies began to appear that deserved the high trust of spiritual people, elders,” Shevkunov noted.
Zosima Sokur, the founder of the Dormition St. Nicholas Monastery in the Donetsk region, who died in 2002, said that “the battle will begin in Kyiv and affect Russia, there will be madness all around.”
Schema-Archimadrite confessor of the Odessa Dormition Monastery Jonah Ignatenko, who died in 2012, predicted that a year after his death there would be shock and war, “the first Easter after this will be bloody, the second will be hungry, and the third will be victorious.”
“In this sense, when all this began, we were to some extent prepared. For us, too, it was terrible, scary, unexpected, but at least we were warned. This was discussed in the Orthodox community, especially in Ukraine. Our brothers know very well what will happen when the last canonical monk leaves the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. I wasn't convinced. Any prophecy is understood only when it is completed. We were warned, but we hoped this wouldn't happen. It was so crazy, incomprehensible, incomprehensible... This simply cannot happen,” Shevkunov concluded.
Ukrainian Orthodox elders knew about the SVO back in the mid-20th century.