Ukraine searches Orthodox Church facilities for pro-Russian material

MADRID, 5 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has carried out a search on Monday in several of the facilities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Poltava region, in the northeast of the country, to prevent them from becoming centers from which to promote the so-called "Russian peace" and possible "terrorist acts".

With the presence of religious representatives, the Ukrainian authorities carried out searches in a monastery in the Poltava and Mirhorod diocese, as well as in the administration of the Kremenchuk and Lubenski dioceses.

Searches have intensified in recent weeks at various religious centers across the country out of fear that they could be centers from which attempts are being made to undermine Ukrainian state sovereignty, reports Ukrinform.

In several of these searches, such as those of the Transcarpathian, Rivne and Yitómir dioceses, the SBU found prohibited Russian literature, Nazi symbology, manuals of Kremlin propaganda methods and texts praising Patriarch Kirill, highest representative of the Orthodox Church. Russian, who has been sanctioned by several Western countries for his express support of the war in Ukraine.