NTA<\/a> TV.<\/p>\n“We all understand that the Moscow Church is a fifth column. We all realize that, apparently, their bishops have extremely high ranks in their intelligence agency, and that most of their priests are also spies. Unfortunately, there is a small part of Ukrainians who may have been bribed or deceived,\u201d Sheremeta said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the actions taken by the priests of the Moscow Church, including \u201cspelling a curse\u201d on the Ecumenical Patriarch to prevent him from arriving in Ukraine, are simply outrageous.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, this is definitely present in this Moscow church and we really see it as a sect,” the historian said.<\/p>\n
This Sunday, the expert added, as he was in Khmelnytsky region where a monument to Ukrainian People\u2019s Republic soldiers was being consecrated, he saw along the way several groups of pilgrims with the Moscow Patriarchate.<\/p>\n
“We drove past them quite slowly and I looked in their faces. Those people were Ukrainians. But there\u2019s an impression that these people have been zombified by this Moscow church \u2013 a sect and organization that employs techniques used by Russia\u2019s secret services. In fact, this is quite unfortunate, so we must do everything to ensure that there is no church around here that goes on declaring anti-Ukrainian slogans, pursuing anti-Ukrainian efforts, and doing everything to ensure that we do not live in an independent state,” Sheremeta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The very existence of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, which has been pursuing anti-Ukrainian efforts, depends solely on Ukrainians. If Ukrainians are strong in their stance, it will certainly be possible to eradicate the \u201cfifth column\u201d and the Moscow priests. At the same time, ROCinU\u2019s parishioners need to undergo \u201crehabilitation,\u201d historian, chief of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5151,5149],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-en","8":"category-opinions"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot_60.jpg?fit=802%2C502&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}