The SBU said last week that they see a threat of hostile influence in the activities of the UOC, and 23 criminal proceedings have already been opened. However, in the SBU itself, since 2014, there have been about 2,000 cases of betrayal of the oath by SBU employees in Crimea alone, and no one claims that the SBU “is an ideal field for the functioning of an enemy residency.” Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich, deputy of the Information and Education Department of the UOC, said this.

“In particular, since the beginning of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia, investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation alone have initiated 420 criminal cases against law enforcement officers and government officials on the facts of treason and collaborationism. Separately, the Head of the National Police Igor Klimenko announced 1358 facts of cooperation with the enemy.

And if you count from 2014, then only in Crimea there were about 2,000 cases of betrayal of the oath by the SBU,” said the speaker of the UOC.

“And no one will argue that the SBU or other state power structures “are an ideal field for the functioning of a hostile residency,” he added.