The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) declared the suspicion to the head of the Cherkasy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Feodosius.
This is stated in the notification of the SBU.
According to the special service, the hierarch in public statements among clergymen and believers and in official comments spread appeals that violate the equality of citizens.
In addition, under his leadership, the administrator of the website of the diocese posted hostile materials from propaganda sites of the Russian Orthodox Church, including patriarchia.ru and pravmir.ru. In these publications, representatives of the aggressor country imposed ideas of racism and popularized the Kremlin regime.
The head of the Cherkasy Diocese of the UOC MP was informed of the suspicion under Art. 161 (violation of the equality of citizens depending on their race, nationality, religious affiliation, religious beliefs, disability and on other grounds) of the Criminal Code.
- At the end of November, the SBU conducted a series of searches in churches, monasteries and laurels of the UOC MP, in particular in Kyiv-Pechersk. On December 1, 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration a draft law banning the activities of religious organizations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine.
- On December 9, a committee of the Verkhovna Rada recommended the adoption of a draft law prohibiting the activity of religious organizations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine.