It is not permissible to humiliate the citizens of Ukraine, proclaim them enemies through their church identity, ethnic identity or language.  Even if their church has a difficult history and a difficult present.  This is stated in the commentary of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience regarding the statement of the OCU Synod.

“GESS notes that it strongly condemns cases of collaboration or the promotion of hostile enemy propaganda, which are not acceptable.  These are crimes for which there should be a proper legal response.  But it is also unacceptable to accuse all members of a large community of collaboration, when even at the level of suspicion it is less than 1% of its members, and the rest are praying for Ukraine and its defenders, collecting humanitarian aid and fighting on the front lines, crying and rejoicing together with the whole country.”  , – they write in the GESS.