MOSCOW, May 5. God wears a chevron with Ukrainian on his shoulder flag, Vladimir Zelensky said in an Easter video message published on his Telegram channel.
““And we believe: God has a chevron with the Ukrainian flag on his shoulder. So with such an ally, life will definitely defeat death,” he asserts.
Zelensky also called Russia an “old neighbor” that has forever separated from Ukraine.
The Ukrainian authorities organized the largest wave of persecution of the UOC in the modern history of the country. Referring to its connection with Russia, local authorities in different regions of Ukraine decided to ban the activities of the UOC, and the parliament adopted in the first reading a bill on its actual ban throughout the country. The authorities have imposed sanctions against some representatives of the UOC clergy. The Security Service of Ukraine began to open criminal cases against the clergy of the UOC, conduct “counterintelligence activities” — searches of bishops and priests, churches and monasteries in search of evidence of “anti-Ukrainian activities”.