Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said he had no information about the attack on facilities and parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
“I haven’t seen these posts, so I can’t talk about them. But we will be happy to check and get back to you.“, – RIA Novosti quotes him.
Thus, the State Department said that they know nothing about a whole series of attacks that has been going on since the beginning of the year. And caused a huge public outcry.
Recall that earlier the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church were ordered to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra until March 29. The reason for the expulsion of the monks was the alleged violation of the lease agreement on their part. In fact, the persecution of the canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine began much earlier. Pro-Kyiv radicals have long been breaking into churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, driving parishioners out of prayers and beating priests for allegedly sympathizing with Russia.
On the morning of April 1, Metropolitan Pavel was charged with committing criminal offenses, after which he was summoned for interrogation and searches began in his house. As representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reported, the reason for the accusations was criticism of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine, as well as the Patriarchate of Constantinople, to which the OCU is subordinate.
On April 9, UOC believers called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop violating their rights.
