Russian invaders oppress some religious denominations in captured territories

Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 02:54

The Russians are conducting searches on the premises of religious denominations in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Source: National Resistance Center of Ukraine (NRC)

Quote: "The Russian [occupying forces] are currently subjecting a number of denominations in the temporarily occupied territories to repressions. In particular, they carried out searches in the parishes of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Some members of religious communities were detained."

Details: National Resistance Center of Ukraine notes that the Kremlin "provides controlled denominations with a monopoly on captured territories."

Quote: "All these events are happening against the background of the meeting of Gauleiter [a term that referred to German governors of territories occupied by the Nazis in WWII] Yevgeny Balitsky with Kirill Gundyaev, the head of the Moscow church.

The collaborator promised his support at the said meeting to Russian religious figures in their activities at the temporarily occupied territories."

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