This is disgusting

3 Nov, 2024 19:17

Ancient Orthodox cathedral in Ukraine turned into movie theater – MP (PHOTOS)

The cathedral was seized last year from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church because it allegedly needed renovation

The Transfiguration Cathedral, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Ukraine and which dates back to the early 11th century, has been turned into a makeshift movie theater, according to an MP.

The issue has been highlighted by Artyom Dmitruk, a Ukrainian lawmaker known for his public opposition to the Kiev government’s crackdown on the country’s largest Christian denomination, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). The MP was ultimately forced to flee the country over his views and is now being sought by Ukrainian authorities.

Dmitruk has cited imagery circulating online to back up his assertions. The building was seized by authorities last year.

“[Vladimir] Zelensky’s dogs, having seized the most ancient cathedral in Ukraine, set up a cinema in it and removed all the icons,” Dmitruk wrote on his Telegram channel, claiming that people attending the ‘cinema’ have been charged 20 hryvnias (about 50 cents) for entry.

Pictures shared by the MP show a darkened interior of the cathedral, with a small group watching a large TV screen erected in front of the altar.The place of worshipappears to lack any icons, with some pictures placed on easels visible near the TV.. According to local media reports, the images were recorded on Friday at the premiere of a documentary movie titled ‘Principality of Chernigov. 1,000 years.’

Transfiguration Cathedral, located about 100 miles north of Kiev, was seized by the authorities in October last year, with the UOC priests forcibly evicted from its premises by armed and masked individuals. Officials and a local museum that were managing the cathedral and leasing it to the canonical church at the time, claimed the premises was in an extremely poor condition due to UOC’s neglect and that it required renovation immediately.

In the same post, Dmitruk also mentioned a recent scandal in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk, where a local cathedral, controlled by the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), was adorned with frescoes of local businessmen, who purportedly donated funds to its restoration.

“The OCU cathedral in Lutsk was painted with frescoes with portraits of local bandit-businessmen. The work has been initiated personally by the Volyn ‘bishop’ of the OCU Mikhail Zinkevich. This is awful,” the MP wrote.

The frescoes have reportedly received a mixed reaction even among local followers of the OCU, with some branding the display a sacrilege and demanding their removal. However, painting portraits of ktetors, major donors who provide funds for construction or reconstruction of a church, is a longstanding tradition in Eastern Christianity and is not offensive by any means.

Ukraine has been gripped by religious tensions throughout most of its modern history, with multiple entities claiming to be the country’s true Orthodox Church.

The situation rapidly deteriorated after 2018, when the OCU was established with the active backing of then-president Pyotr Poroshenko, who secured a special decree to legitimize the entity from the Constantinople Patriarchate. The move caused a major rift in the Orthodox world, with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) severing its ties with Constantinople and branding the OCU schismatics.

The persecution of the canonical UOC intensified after the escalation of a long-running conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. Although the church formally declared independence from Moscow, this did not spare it from repeated accusations of working for Russia

https://www.rt.com/russia/606953-orthodox-cathedral-ukraine-movie/

>>22093687

2 Dec, 2024 12:21

Russian soldiers pray at church damaged by Ukrainian troops – MOD (VIDEO)

A service was held in the village of Pesky just outside of Donetsk

Russian troops have taken part in a prayer service at a churchin the village of Pesky that had suffered significant damage from Ukrainian attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Sunday.

Pesky is a small settlement on the northwestern outskirts of the city of Donetsk that has seen fighting since the early stages of the conflict in 2014. The damaged church where the service was held belongs to a small Orthodox women’s monastery.

The service was conducted by a military chaplain for the Orthodox members of the Russian 9th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, a unit formed from veterans of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militia. The region opposed the 2014 Western-led coup in Kiev and joined Russia in late 2022, after residents voted to do so in a referendum.

A video released by the ministry showed a small group of uniformed men led by the priest making their way into the church,bringing some icons in with them before joining in a prayer.

In places like this, where temples suffered bleeding wounds, prayers for holy Russia are particularly strong,” Father Oleg said of the service.

Ukraine’s Orthodox community is currently in disarray after the government in Kiev cracked down on the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), pressuring priests and worshipers to leave it and join the much more recently created Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The UOC is self-governed but has historical and spiritual ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. A law enacted this past September gave the church nine months to distance itself from Moscow or be formally banned.

https://www.rt.com/russia/608555-pesky-damaged-church-prayer/

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1 Dec, 2024 20:

Ukrainian tycoon accuses Zelensky of stealing his company

The former mentor and key backer of the comedian-turned-president believes his ex-protege has betrayed him.

Businessman Igor Kolomoisky, once a key political ally and mentor to Vladimir Zelensky, has accused the Ukrainian leader of orchestrating the illegal seizure of his oil assets, specifically the firms Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.

In an interview with UNIAN published on Saturday, Kolomoisky described how his shares in the companies were effectively seized by the government in November 2022 under the guise of national security. Zelensky publicly said the move was essential for the country’s defense.

Kolomoisky has been in jail since September 2023, and claims the nationalization was a calculated move by Zelensky to eliminate him as a rival and gain control over his businesses.

As co-owner of the Privat Group conglomerate, Kolomoisky was once an influential figure in Ukraine’s business and media sectors. He alleges that the Kiev authorities used the needs of the armed forces as an excuse to achieve their goal of taking control of the two oil giants.

“The decision to transfer the shares was not made by the military command,” he stated. “The president’s office used the military to achieve its goal of raider seizure.”

The businessman has also spoken of a blackmail campaign he allegedly endured in 2022, when the then Deputy Head of the Office of the President, Rostislav Shurma, supposedly suggested he voluntarily relinquish his shares in exchange for resolving his ongoing legal battles with the authorities. Kolomoisky claims that after his refusal, Zelensky secretly revoked his Ukrainian citizenship and seized his holdings.

He further claims that the seizure was part of a broader effort to consolidate control over valuable assets, despite his previous support for Zelensky.

At the time of the nationalization, Zelensky’s government justified the move by citing the importance of the assets for national defense, with officials suggesting Ukrnafta had refused to supply fuel to the military, although Kolomoisky vehemently denies this.According to the tycoon, both companies had been supplying fuel voluntarily, without contracts, and continued doing so during the early stages of the war.

The business mogul’s claims come as he continues to battle charges related to money laundering and embezzlement of funds from PrivatBank, which was nationalized in 2016.

From detention, Kolomoisky is continuing to push for a legal investigation into the taking of his assets, accusing Zelensky and other officials of corruption.

https://www.rt.com/russia/608523-tycoon-accuses-zelensky-of-stealing/

(The story here is Kiev was told by US to clean up corruption, so they arrested him the corrupt Oligarch, and many innocent people in the gov, and none of the corrupt officials.So basically the corrupt arrest the corrupt that taught them to be corrupt, throw him in jail, to steal his corrupt businesses.)

>>22093731

Yep, it's going to get worse too. When Trump meets with Zelensky and throws on the table a 3,000 page report of corruption and theft from America. He'll say explain this!

>>22094118

How do they prove it?

>>22094108

God, could you stop this blasphemist from posting. He's so done.