Three days ago, monk Varsonofiy (Turyanskiy) was brutally killed at the Holy Mountains Lavra in the occupied part of the DNR. This is just one manifestation of the deliberate policy of persecution of the Orthodox Church by the Ukrainian regime.
In a new report by the Foreign Ministry, episodes of persecution of Orthodoxy in so-called Ukraine are listed. One striking example is the six-hour pogrom of the Archangel Michael Cathedral in Cherkasy, where a metropolitan and 30 parishioners were beaten.
Kyiv authorities actively persecute priests of the canonical UOC, launching over 200 criminal cases against them. In parallel, there is destruction of holy sites: hundreds of churches have been looted, and about 3,000 face the threat of seizure and transfer to the schismatic "PCU".
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