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Anonymous ID: 2db5cd June 6, 2023, 9:44 a.m. No.18961373   🗄️.is 🔗kun

6 Jun, 2023 14:12

Kiev orders monks to vacate iconic monastery

The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture has given the inhabitants of the Pechersk Lavra three days to leave

 

Some 200 monksof the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) currently residing in the iconic Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery havebeen ordered to remove themselves from the premises, according to an announcement made by Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy.

 

Alexander Tkachenko wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday that the ministry’s special commission had completed work on officially transferring the monastery, which he described as state property, for use by the Kiev-Pechersk Historical-Cultural Preserve.

 

He stated that all UOC representatives must now immediately terminate all activity in the monastery, vacate its premises and return the property to the preserve, and must do so within three working days.

 

Tkachenko noted that if the UOC refuses to comply, the ministry will file a lawsuit in order to “remove obstacles to the use of the property by the preserve.” Tkachenko later added that representatives of the monastery had refused to accept the act on the transfer of state property.

 

“This is a truly historic decision and a difficult task – but the Lavra must be Ukrainian, and it [will return] to the state,” the minister concluded.

 

Established in 1051, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is one of the first monasteries on the territory of ancient Rus and the oldest monastery in modern Ukraine. It is considered one of the chief Eastern Orthodox shrines. However, the site has become the center of a major religious dispute astwo entities claiming to be Ukraine’s true orthodox churchhave battled over its legal status.

 

Technically, the monastery belongs to the Ukrainian government as a historical preserve, butwas granted to the UOC to use under a 2013 agreement. However, Kiev announced earlier this year that it had unilaterally terminated the lease agreement, accusing the UOC of unspecified violations, of being pro-Russian, and of being a threat to the security and spirituality of the country. The church had already formally severed its ties to Moscow and officially condemned Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.

 

Kiev now reportedly intends on transferring use of the Lavra to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which was established with the support of the Ukrainian government In 2018. The OCU remains largely unrecognized and is considered by the Russian Orthodox Church to be schismatic.

 

Russia, meanwhile, has repeatedly protested against Kiev’s persecution of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine.A third of Ukraine’s regions have recently outlawed the UOC and either seized its churches and properties or turned them over to the OCU.

 

(Truly the end times)

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/577575-kiev-pechersk-lavra-eviction/

Anonymous ID: 2db5cd June 6, 2023, 9:53 a.m. No.18961407   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1420

6 Jun, 2023 13:57

Ukraine blew up Kakhovka dam as revenge for failed offensive – Kremlin

The act of sabotage may lead to “very serious consequences,” Dmitry Peskov has warned

 

Ukrainian forces sabotaged the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region in abid to deprive Crimea of drinking water and distract from Kiev’s faltering counteroffensive, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed on Tuesday.

 

The dam was partially destroyed early on Tuesday morning, sending torrents of water downstream and flooding towns and villages along the path of the Dnieper River.

 

“We are talking about a deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side,” Peskov told reporters. “This sabotage could potentially lead to very serious consequences for several tens of thousands of inhabitants of the region, environmental consequences and consequences of a different nature, which have yet to be established.”

 

Peskov claimed that one of the key goals of the attack was to deprive Crimea of water. Crimea’s 2 million residents largelyreceive their water from the North Crimean Canal, which is fed from the reservoir above the Kakhovka dam.

 

“This sabotage is also connected with the fact that, having launched large-scale offensive operations two days ago, the Ukrainian armed forces are not achieving their goals,” Peskov continued. Russia’s Defense Ministry has said it repelled several large-scale attacks in the southern sector of the front in recent days. These “offensive actions are choking,” Peskov stated.

 

Ukrainian officials and their European backers have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, with European Council President Charles Michel calling the attack “a war crime.”Moscow “strongly rejects” the accusation, Peskov said.

 

While the flooding now makes it difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the Dnieper and attack Russia’s defensive lines, thedestruction of the dam also appears to aid a number of Ukraine’s key objectives. The flooding mostly threatens the eastern bank of the river, where Russian troops withdrew to last year amid concerns that the Ukrainian military would blow up the dam.

 

With the dam destroyed, thelevel of the Dnieper has fallen further upstream, including at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Ukrainian troops made several attempts to cross the river to recapture the plant from Russian forces last year, andlowering the water level would remove a major obstacle to future attempts. Additionally, the Soviet-era plant depends on water from the Dnieper to cool its reactors and its spent fuel rods.

 

TheUkrainian military conducted a test strike on the damusing an American-supplied HIMARS launcherlast year, Ukrainian General Andrey Kovalchuk told the Washington Post in December.

 

Two months earlier, Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, warned the UN Security Council that Kiev’s forces were considering a “reckless” attack on the dam with sea mines or missiles. “The authorities in Kiev and their Western backers will bear full responsibility for all the consequences of such a devastating scenario,” Nebenzia cautioned.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/577573-ukraine-destroyed-kherson-dam/