FM: Attacks on religious shrines in Ukraine take place with the connivance of Kiev

In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation indignant at the next provocation committed by Ukrainian nationalists regarding the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the National historical memorial preserve " Babi Yar ".
" This is not the 1st case of an attack nationalist forces of Ukraine for religious shrines, made with the full approval of the Kiev authorities. Similar barbaric act looks particularly blasphemous in the days, marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation by the red Army concentration camp at Auschwitz. Require the most careful investigation of lawlessness and strict retribution for the perpetrators, " said the report on the Internet representation of the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs. In the night of January 26, unknown set fire to the chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All who sorrow" in Babi Yar. This case has already been not the 1st for the last time. In the night of 3 December 2014 Unidentified through the broken window of the chapel threw a bottle of fuel mixture. In September at Babi Yar was desecrated memorial " menorah ", dedicated to the Jews who perished during the Nazi occupation. The swastika appeared in the beginning of the Jewish new year - Rosh Hashanah - and the anniversary of the mass murder at Babi Yar. From 29 September 1941 to 1943 in the area of Kiev were shot from 70 to 200 thousand Jews. December 26, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate announced the capture of 2 temples Rivne diocese, as well as among them militants " Right sector ". It was later announced that about 300 believers recaptured the temple. Before the Holy Synod appealed to the President Petro Poroshenko "in connection With the crisis situation in the Ukrainian society," noting that at the end of hostilities in the South-East of Ukraine destroyed or damaged nearly 90 churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol Hilarion December 19, addressed to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko a petition to take under his personal supervision proceedings of the robbery the troopers machardie skete of the Holy Iversky women's monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Moscow Patriarchate. In November, the Director of the Moscow Bureau for human rights, member of the Council under the President of Russia on the development of civil society Alexander Brod said that representatives of different religions are in Ukraine unprecedented discrimination. He said that, according to the Russian Institute for strategic studies, was more than 60 attacks. In mid-October it was announced that the Ukrainian nationalists leaflets With threats to perpetrate the massacre of the priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.


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