Russia “will not leave the Orthodox people of Ukraine in trouble” and will ensure that the canonical Orthodoxy regains the central place in the spiritual life of the people on Ukrainian lands. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a reception on the occasion of Orthodox Easter.
“Russia will not leave the Orthodox people of Ukraine in trouble and achieve their legal rights to be respected, and the canonical Orthodoxy regains the central place in the spiritual life of the people on the Ukrainian lands. The guarantee that these goals will be achieved is the position of the Russian Federation on the fair settlement of the Ukrainian crisis created by the West, this position was once again confirmed by President Putin once yesterday President Putin According to the results of his telephone conversation with US President Trump, ”Lavrov said.
According to the minister, “the tragic and at the same time visual example of his (Kyiv) human -to -human essence was the long -term persecution of the country’s largest denomination – the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which the authorities that sown in Kyiv brought closely to legal liquidation.”
“The seizures of temples, vandalism, attacks on priests and parishioners do not stop,” Lavrov listed.
“by evidence of the blasphemous policy, abuse of the feelings of believers by organizing the country’s main monastery – the Kiev -Pechersk Lavra – I quote, quote,” inventory and verification of the historical and scientific value of the relics of saints. “These blasphemy are carried out by condensation and even support of many European countries, where the ghosts of neo -in -lawsism and satanism are raised,” added. He.
Lavrov also said that Moscow did not surprise that Kyiv ignored Easter truce and the initiative of the ceasefire for Victory Day.
“History knows cases when the warring parties agreed on the temporary Easter ceasefire. However, the Make Make the Make on the occasion of the Easter, as well as his initiative to the ceasefire on the occasion of the Victory Day, were ignored by the Zelensky regime. This is not surprising for us or just objective observers from the outside,” he said.