"The persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church culminated in the previous days with the violent seizure of temples in favor of the pseudo-church schismatic structure, which has the status of a kind of 'state church' and informal inquisition"
Everything that had ever united Russians and Ukrainians began to crumble after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A partly occupied and entirely bombed country is erasing traces of coexistence with an aggressive neighbor. Orthodox Ukrainians no longer have to celebrate Christmas on January 7, if they don't want to, because that's when Orthodox Russians celebrate it.
While people are dying in Ukraine, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill talks about the perverted West and the pernicious influence of the gay parade, the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epiphany compares Putin to Hitler, and the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate Onufriy desperately calls on Putin to end the fratricidal war "which is not justified neither God nor man"
