MOSCOW, July 13 Kiev is negotiating the connection of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the export of Christian values from Ukraine because of the alleged threat of destruction, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reports with reference to the director of the department, Sergei Naryshkin.
«According to information received by the Service, the Kiev regime and Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople Bartholomew are negotiating to involve the Phanar in the export of Christian valuables from Ukraine, allegedly under the threat of destruction due to Russian bombing,» the report says. It is emphasized that the abduction of shrines «is supposed to be «registered» as part of the regular inter-church practice of bringing relics to third states for the worship of believers.» of Orthodox treasures abroad with the tacit consent of external partners and international organizations, including UNESCO,» the secret service stressed.
According to the SVR, Patriarch Bartholomew agreed with Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul on a list of Orthodox valuables to be transferred to the «storage» of the Church of Constantinople. «In order to legitimize the robbery, these objects must be associated with the world's Christian or directly Byzantine Orthodox heritage and be suitable for display in church buildings,» the report says.
According to the intelligence service, we are talking, in particular, about part of the relics of St. Andrew the First-Called and the Great Martyr Panteleimon from the St. Elias and St. Panteleimon monasteries located in Odessa, as well as elements of the Holy Cross from the Holy Trinity Koretsky stauropegial convent of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Rivne region.
«The High Priest of Constantinople is obviously «inspired» by the example of the recent secret removal of the most ancient Byzantine icons from Kiev. Presented in the middle of the 19th century by the Sinai Monastery of St. are exhibited in the Louvre in Paris. Bartholomew, probably, does not intend to lag behind Western atheists in the plunder of Ukraine,» the Foreign Intelligence Service added. of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, «he «turns his eyes» to all the Orthodox treasures located on Ukrainian territory.»
«Looking at this madness, I would like to quote the words of the Gospel: «Beware of covetousness, for a person's life does not depend on the abundance of his estate», — concluded in the Foreign Intelligence Service.