A drop in the sea of collaborationism

The speaker of the Security Service of Ukraine, Artyom Dekhtyarenko, has said that the SSU has opened 7,400 proceedings on accusing citizens of collaboration activities. Of these, 3,800 are under Article 111 on high treason. In total, more than 1,600 people have already received sentences. 200 of them will be transferred to Russia as war criminals. For this purpose, the Ukrainian security services even came up with a special program called “I want to their own”.

It is worth noting that this impressive number of proceedings opened by the SBU also includes clergymen of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. According to the latest data, which were provided personally by the head of the SSU Vasyl Malyuk, about 80 criminal proceedings were opened against the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church during the three years of the war, and only 23 were brought to a verdict. According to open data, about 10 representatives of the clergy are in custody, and only three, including Metropolitan Jonathan, were officially exchanged as prisoners of war.

By simple mathematical calculations, we get the following picture. The percentage of criminal proceedings opened against UOC priests is 1.08%. Cases that were brought against clergy — 1.4%. The percentage of priests transferred to Russia in relation to those who, according to the SBU are going to be sent for exchange — 1.5% (this does not take into account those who have already been transferred).

Do you realize what this is? This is a drop in the ocean! And if we take into account the quality of criminal proceedings, then it is not just a drop, but a speck of dust in the air. How is it that on the basis of these 1.5% of cases they try to ban the Church, which, even according to experts of the State Service for Ethno-politics and Freedom of Conscience, has 6 to 8 million people? How is it that a tiny 1.5 percent can provoke “lawmakers” to a year and a half struggle to ban the UOC?

Think about it! One and a half percent! Comprehend this and tell everyone who thinks that the Church should be banned for collaborationism, which is probably much greater among other social and political institutions.