Tortured, abducted and destroyed: as invaders destroy religious communities

The invaders in the temporarily captured territories of Ukraine systematically suppress religious communities. In particular, in the Donbass Protestant temples were turned into warehouses for weapons, and clergy were tortured and killed. This was reported by the adviser to the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak, reports UNN.

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It is noted that priests who did not agree to cooperate with the invaders were stolen, accused of espionage and knocking out the necessary “confessions”.

In Crimea, the methods of pressure included searches in mosques, criminal prosecution for religious literature and intimidation of imams.

In three years, the Russians killed about half a hundred pastors in Ukraine, 630 temples were destroyed or damaged

Podolyak added because most Ukrainians profess religion, war is also a struggle for the right to believe and visit temples.

More than 70 % of Ukrainians call themselves believers. Therefore, the Armed Forces fight not only for freedom, our homes and families, but also for religious freedom,

The abandonment of its territories would also mean the loss of this freedom. It is obvious that the ROC is not a religion, but an ideological instrument that justifies violence, massacres and genocide, Podolyak notes.

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UNN He wrote that the Russian Federation and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) with the Kremlin systematically violate the international humanitarian right in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.