MOSCOW, July 15 Ukrainian deputies who voted to end relations with the UOC (on the territory of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Kiev), excommunicated themselves from the Church, Metropolitan Luka (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol said in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the city council of the city of Zaporozhye, controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, decided to break all ties with the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
According to him, God punished the deputies who voted by depriving them of their reason. «The deputies who voted for this decision excommunicated themselves on their own, cursed not only themselves, but their entire family … Before the elections, the candidates for the «servants of the people» gave you «Judas kisses», begging for votes, according to media reports, only for the sake of access to plundering the city budget, which is formed at the expense of your deductions, and therefore, for the sake of their own enrichment at the expense of you,» Metropolitan Luka wrote.