Ukrainian clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate continue contacting, traveling, and receiving instructions from their Russian supervisors and implement these instructions through the Church, deliver those messages to the population and spread pro-Russian hostile narratives. 78% of Ukrainians believe that the state should somehow intervene in the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Watch Ukraine in flames #571 to find out why sanctions against the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine aren’t religious persecution, and how UOC MP has been shaping narratives in Ukraine beneficial to the aggressor country.
Guests:
Andriy Bondar, Ukrainian writer, publicist and translator
Ihor Stokoz, Public Activist
Yuriy Lukanov, Ukrainian journalist and writer
Timecodes
00:00 – Intro
02:04 – (Lukanov) “Priests as KGB agents”
06:03 – (Bondar) “There is only one church – Ukrainian”
10:39 – (Stokoz) “Powerful force of political influence”
14:41 – Outro