The Russian Orthodox Church is a threat to national security. Cut all the tentacles

Two sections of the Russian Orthodox Church are active in Ukraine: the Russian Church and its Ukrainian counterpart. Russian has more members who are loyal to the Patriarch of Moscow, while the Ukrainian Church is based in Kiev.

"I think it is absolutely necessary to cut off all the tentacles with which this country of attackers operates in our state" Poroshenko

He declared that the Russian Church "n & # 39 is separated from the state only on paper "and that she" fully and unconditionally supports the imperialist policy of the Kremlin ".

The conflict in Ukraine has created new tensions between the Ukrainian and Russian branches of the Orthodox Church. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church supported the 2014 protests that resulted in the fall of the Ukrainian government backed by the Russians

Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, is a close friend of Vladimir Putin . At a meeting with the faithful on Friday, he prayed for peace in eastern Ukraine and said that the Kiev church should not distance himself from Moscow because "This could lead to a disaster."

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