Kirill Gundyaev, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, has said that Ukrainians and Russians are one nation, and “the church is doing everything to prevent them [Ukrainians and Russians – ed.] from becoming enemies”.
Source: Russian Orthodox Church press service, citing Gundyaev in an interview with Russia-1 [state-owned Russian television channel]
Quote: “Undoubtedly. This is one nation [Ukrainians and Russians – ed.] that came out of the Kyiv baptismal font, but it is already a very large nation. From the White to the Black Sea…
The Orthodox Church was and is the force that unites this nation.
A political division exists. The fact that Ukraine has declared that they are radically changing the vector of their political and, I would like to say, historical development and that this new vector does not coincide with the vector of Russia’s development – that is the issue.”
Details: Gundyaev noted that “everything is being done in Ukraine to make Russia look like an enemy in the eyes of Ukrainians,” but he did not specify who is doing it.
He added that the Russian Orthodox Church should do everything so that “Ukrainians and Russians do not become enemies.”
Background: Meanwhile, a divine service was started under the leadership of His Beatitude Epiphanius, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine, the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (the Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv), on the morning of 7 January.
He added that the Russian Orthodox Church should do everything so that “Ukrainians and Russians do not become enemies.”
Yes, and part of that process is to get our KGB church to bless every bomb that is sent to murder Ukrainians. Just to show we are not enemies.
Yeah, ruzzia and Ukraine are brothers as long as Ukrainians agree with ruzzia’s fascism, otherwise Ukrainians are nazis and must be killed and the children get their ears cut off and drowned….
There is a division between Ukraine and Russia. Humanity versus barbarism.
Gundyaev is a tobacco-smuggling gang boss who accumulated a stash of $4bn and owns a mansion in Switzerland. He’s approximately as pious as a pile of pigshit.
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A political division exists. The fact that Ukraine has declared that they are radically changing the vector of their political and, I would like to say, historical development and that this new vector does not coincide with the vector of Russia’s development – that is the issue.”
Holy fucking retarded Nimrod mentality! Ukraine was and is, and always will be a sovereign Nation. Free to decide its own future as a sovereign nation.
“Ukrainians and Russians are one nation” Kirill Gundyaev says, They never truly were. Only as part of the USSR in some technical sense under communist subjugation.
All this informational double speak might have had some influence in the 1800’s, but holy crap! What a bunch of delusional tribal monkeys these guys are. We are living in today’s world and not some backwards fantasy land essentially run by mob bosses.
Again, truly what a bunch of delusional backwards ass wipes that run today’s Russia.
From Canada with love! Slava Ukraini!
– Jonathan
Oh Canada!