"He was amazed": the Russian Foreign Minister spoke about the reaction of the US president to the information about the ban of the UOC

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergey Lavrov, has spoken about US President Donald Trump’s reaction to the information that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is banned in Ukraine. According to Lavrov, Trump was amazed by what he heard. Lavrov said in an interview with the media.

“At the talks in Alaska, we mentioned that, among other things, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is banned. And President Trump was astonished and he asked Mark Rubio several times whether it was true. And it was visible his attitude to this kind of things,” – said Lavrov.

We will remind, earlier the permanent representative of the United States to NATO Matthew Whitaker said that the ceasefire agreement in the war between Russia and Ukraine may include the protection of the rights of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Whitaker noted that US President Donald Trump was making considerable efforts to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and that the best moment for this was coming now.