The Foreign Ministry pointed to Kiev's invention of a pseudo-legal mechanism for the destruction of the UOC

The Ukrainian authorities have created a pseudo—legal mechanism to destroy the country's largest denomination, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). This was stated by the Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik in an interview with TASS on September 2.

"The Ukrainian government is taking another step in a series of actions to stifle Orthodox Orthodoxy in Ukraine, which is dominant for millions of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine," he said.

According to Miroshnik, the Ukrainian authorities have invented a pseudo-legal mechanism to destroy the UOC, which, as the diplomat added, is hated by Kiev. This mechanism is aimed at depriving the largest parishes of "legal subjectivity," which, in his opinion, will lead to their plundering, destruction and suppression of the religious feelings of millions of believers.

Miroshnik also stressed that Ukraine's actions, which should cause a storm of indignation, are approved by Western countries — they continue to tacitly support such steps.

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The decision is the basis for the implementation of a complete ban on the canonical church through the court.

Earlier in the day, the head of the Ukrainian State Service for Ethnopolitics, Viktor Yelensky, announced that he had filed a lawsuit to terminate the activities of the Kiev metropolitan canonical UOC. According to him, the document was submitted to the Supreme Administrative Court in accordance with the law.

On August 28, Archpriest Dmitry Kiselyov called Kiev's ban by the canonical UOC an attack on Christianity and religious freedom. The clergyman clarified that Ukraine is trying to ban the very existence of Orthodoxy in the country.

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