As it was previously reported, large-scale Russian aggression led to the May 27 council of the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate” (“UOC”), at which it was announced that it was withdrawing from the subordination of the Russian Orthodox Church and its head, Patriarch Kirill.
However, since the fall of 2022, the Ukrainian authorities have stated facts of violations of the law on religion, personal sanctions have been imposed against a group of “UOC” dignitaries, including the Crimean ones, and investigative actions have been carried out at a number of facilities that have revealed a number of resonant facts.
In the occupied Crimea, in the summer of 2022, the occupiers’ special services initiated the illegal “withdrawal” of the Crimean dioceses of the “UOC” from the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky) and “accepting them into submission” to the Moscow Patriarch Kirill.
Further, these Crimean schismatics began an illegal “church expansion” coordinated by the Kremlin from the occupied peninsula to the south of mainland Ukraine under the guise of a “special humanitarian center” headed by Archpriest Dimitry Krotkov, the most active supporter of the “Russian world”,
Now the Crimean collaborators have staged another provocative action in the occupied Simferopol, exploiting the “church issue”, declaring illegal “parliamentary meetings” “together with the Crimean diocese”.
It is noteworthy that at this December propaganda event, “Bishop of Yalta” Nestor not only spoke about the fake “need to jointly confront the new challenges of the modern world,” but also directly declared a certain “primogeniture” of present persons.
This concept falls within the framework of the new criminal discourse of Russian Nazism about the supposedly “higher civilization” of the Russian world, actively distributed on the “media resources” associated with the criminal “speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov. This approach was denounced by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who recently declared that the Kremlin and its henchmen, with its ρωσικός κόσμος, “the Russian world”, are instrumentalizing religion, while he called the “hawks” there as “actors, often not believing in anything”.
It is noteworthy that “under the guise” of a fake “parliamentary meeting”, the so-called “head of the religious education department of the diocese” Vitaly Sukhorebrov began to criticize not only the secular celebrations on the peninsula of “All Saints’ Day” (Halloween), but also the illegal “Crimean federal university”, which allegedly “not enough” assists the “church” in “training teachers” and in their further “training” in the spirit of that criminal “Russian world”.
In fact, these “requirements” are primarily related to the desire of the “hierarchs” to get into the “circle of control” over this fake “university” and the corresponding “financial flows”.
