Earlier, the head of the Department for Religious Affairs of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, Viacheslav Horshkov, said that no clergyman of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a current chaplain in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The official added that this situation has arisen because of the laws that prohibit UOC priests from serving as chaplains in the Armed Forces.
MP: The rule on armor for priests hides a scheme to transfer UOC parishes to OCU
The resonant decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the inclusion of religious organizations in the list of critical infrastructure and, as a result, the reservation of clergy from military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, may become a trap for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian MP Aleksandr Dubinsky, who believes that the state, using the norms of such a Cabinet order, will blackmail the priests of the UOC, persuading them to join the OCU in exchange for exemption from military service. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
“The idea of the Cabinet of Ministers to book clergymen is actually aimed at throwing priests and ministers of the UOC into a meat grinder. The mechanism is simple, like everything else in our trouser reich: priests and ministers will receive reservations in agreement with the State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (a ridiculous name for decisions on who to serve and who to die). Thus, the parishes that will transfer to the OCU will receive a reservation. And those who do not will go to war. That is, the statistics will improve, as well as the utilization measures,” — the MP wrote.
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