If we had an independent Church since 1992, then there would be no occupation of Crimea, no war in the east of Ukraine. The head of the OCU Epiphany Dumenko said this on the Channel 5.

“It so happened historically that at one time, if we analyze this autocephalous movement, the struggle for the independence of the Ukrainian church, then at the beginning, unfortunately, the Ukrainian state did not contribute to this. The Ukrainians also did not fully understand that they need to have their own independent local Ukrainian Orthodox Church. If we had a single Church, autocephalous and independent from the beginnings: starting there in 1992, then I am sure that there would not have been the occupation of Crimea, there would not have been this aggression of the war in the east of Ukraine.

That is why, if we analyze all of Kirill’s visits to Ukraine, we will see that he created this idea of ​​the “Russian world” and that he influenced Putin in the spirit that all Ukrainians expect annexation, expect unity in the so-called. “The Russian world,” said Dumenko.