Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appreciated the call of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU), Metropolitan Epiphanius, to pray only in Ukrainian.
priest declarationsays the church does not want the monks to be expelled from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, but argues that the “spirit of the Russian world” does not reign there and that “prayer in Ukrainian is always offered” for Ukraine.
“The laurel desecrates the larvae. <…> Stupid, blinded by hate, I don’t understand. Not a single temple will be built on hatred, ”Wrote Zakharova Telegram.
The diplomat stressed that the Ukrainians destroyed the Russian spirit in the Lavra, destroying the Lavra itself.
Former Minister of Culture of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko saidThat questions about the “filling with content” of the lower part of the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra will be considered after the return of all its objects “for state use”.