Writer Jan Taksyur spoke at the UN Security Council on the ongoing persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The video of the performance was published by Pravblog.

Yan Taksyur spoke about the unprecedented campaign of lies raised in the media regarding the UOC.

“Bishops and ordinary priests who were born and lived all their lives in Ukraine, without any evidence, are accused of collaborating with foreign intelligence, possessing weapons and prohibited literature. Although all this has an insignificant evidence base,” the writer said.

He added that Metropolitan Feodosiy of Cherkasy and Kanev is currently under house arrest. In the pre-trial detention center (the former Lukyanovskaya prison) is the governor of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel. The accusations leveled against them are unsubstantiated.

Yan Taksyur also said that the world shrine, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, whose governor is now in prison, is being subjected to sophisticated repressions these days. The main temples of the Lavra, the Assumption Cathedral and the Refectory Church, have already been selected and transferred to the OCU.”

“I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in this case the Ukrainian authorities are interfering in the area of the sacred, in the area of the relationship between man and God. In the area where there can be no place for politics and geopolitics,” the writer said.

In addition, Jan Taksyur said that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has “an unheard of in the history of law bill on the complete ban on the UOC. And the deputies declare their readiness to vote for it. That is, the authorities are going to wipe out the Church in which they are baptized, crowned and millions of citizens of the country were reprimanded.”