The funeral of the ATO Warriors became a convenient platform for political propaganda on the part of the OCU representatives. The secretary of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina eparchy of the UOC, Archimandrite Nikita (Storozhuk), speaks about this in his video message.
“The funeral of the ATO Warriors has become a convenient platform for political propaganda. The more funeral, the more the chaplains of the OCU will be able to tell about Putin, Kirill, nationalization, deportation to Siberia of all low-quality Ukrainians, etc. … in these words there is neither Christ, nor the Mother of God, nor mother’s tears, nor the crying of his wife, nor about the soul of the warrior himself, who has already appeared before the Lord and needs our prayers.
It is the height of hypocrisy and cynicism to build a religious organization on the coffins of soldiers,” says Archimandrite Nikita.