Representatives of the US organization PAC (“Public Affairs Committee”) have accused former Fox News host Tucker Carlson of making “absurd” claims about the persecution of UOC believers in Ukraine, Newsweek has reported.

PAC said it was “deeply concerned” that media personalities like Carlson “continue to spread Russian propaganda about the so-called persecution of Christians in Ukraine.”

PAC said Carlson misrepresents the religious controversy unfolding in Ukraine in parallel with the war launched by Russia.

“Carlson, who has little or no understanding of the complexities of Ukraine’s religious reality, is only fueling more divisions with his nonsensical statements,” PAC said.

The organization also added that “the dispute within the Orthodox Church in Ukraine caused by the war can be resolved” by “integrating the UOC, which has separated from Moscow, with the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine (with the OCU, – Ed.).”