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Taksyur

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2023-07-26
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  1. “I think that such a situation is unacceptable. It is illegal and criminal in the face of God and people. I hope that the members of the Council, as people who respect the sacrosanct, will not fail to give their attention and protection to those who are suffering injustice in Ukraine today.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  2. “The scenario of lawlessness taking place throughout the country is always the same, and although those figures are hidden, it all boils down to one thing: hundreds and thousands of parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have either already been forcibly transferred and placed under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, or remain under threat of being seized and transferred. Moreover, in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, there is a bill that would completely ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — this is unprecedented in the history of law — and the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada have announced their willingness to vote in favour of it. That means that the Ukrainian authorities are going to wipe off the face of the earth the Church in which millions of the country’s citizens were baptized, wed and paid last respects.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  3. “Under the false accusations of collaboration with foreign intelligence, he, like me, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, after being tortured. Today, as I address the Council, the Holy Intercession Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi has already been seized. And this is how it happened: it was stormed in April by 500 people, including so-called activists of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and with the support of local authorities and police. In July, in the city of Bila Tserkva, a group of people, who called themselves priests of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, with the support of special forces, blocked parishioners’ access to the local cathedral and seized it by force. And believe me, that sad list could go on.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  4. “In that regard, I draw the Security Council’s attention to the fact that the Ukrainian authorities are interfering in the realm of the sacrosanct — the relationship between man and God — in which politics and geopolitics have no place. Nevertheless, the Security Service of Ukraine is still conducting, under fabricated suspicions and pretexts, operations targeting dozens, if not hundreds, of cathedrals and monasteries in Ukraine in Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn, Mykolayiv, Sumy, Lviv, Zhytomyr and Kherson oblasts. Metropolitan Ionathan of Tulchyn and Bratslav and Metropolitan Luke of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol have been subjected to searches and interrogations. The victims of this moral terror include ordinary priests. I had opportunity to get to know one of them, Father Andrei Pavlenko.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  5. “The charges brought against them have no legal basis whatsoever, which is another egregious fact. The world-famous holy monastery of the Kyiv- Pechersk Lavra, on the site of which there is now a prison, is also being subjected to sophisticated repression these days. The main temples of the Lavra — the Dormition Cathedral and the Refectory Church — have already been seized and handed to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The Lavra’s brethren and monks have been expelled from the monastery, some of the most valuable icons and items of worship have been seized illegally and worshippers are not being granted access into the Lavra — all because they did not give into the demand to move to another religious jurisdiction.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  6. “Ordinary worshipers have had their fingers cut off as they attempted to protect their churches, metal rods have been driven into skulls, the blood of the priesthood and the laity shed. Besides that, there has been an unprecedented campaign of lies launched by the media. Without any proof, bishops and ordinary priests born in Ukraine and who spent their entire lives there are being called agents of the Kremlin and accused of harbouring arms and banned literature, although there is absolutely no evidence for any of that. Metropolitan Theodosy of Cherkasy and Kanev is under house arrest. Today, in a detention centre I know well — the former Lukianivska Prison in Kyiv, located on the site of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra — Metropolitan Pavel is languishing, as is my friend Dmitry Skvortsov, a well-known Orthodox publicist.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  7. “Immediately, violent actions began targeting the believers and priesthood of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, including the seizure of churches, their illegal re-registration and threats of legal and physical reprisals. I felt compelled to speak and write openly about the situation, which constituted a violation of article 35 of the Ukrainian Constitution, according to which the State has no right to interfere in church affairs. The new wave of persecution targeting the canonical Church arose under the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It intensified and escalated in particular early this year and is still going on. Hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox churches and monasteries have been seized and violently and illegally transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  8. “I want to emphasize that my personal history is only a small part of the persecution and the terror that have been unleashed against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its adherents in the past few years. I would like to remind the Council that the Orthodox Church in the land of Ukraine was created in the tenth century, and the current Ukrainian Orthodox Church is its direct successor. However, in 2018, a number of politicians — the then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the then United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople — in violation of church laws and the Ukrainian Constitution, created a new religious organization in the country, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. They then began to demand of the ancient canonical Church that it change to a new structure.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source

  9. “My name is Yan Taksyur. I am a writer and a television programme host and a citizen of Ukraine. On 10 March 2022, I was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and sent first to an SBU prison and then to a Kyiv pre-trial facility. At the end of May of this year, a court in Kyiv sentenced me to 12 years’ imprisonment. However, after an exchange of Russian prisoners of war, I was given the opportunity and the honour to speak here before you today. Why has Ukrainian justice treated me — a 70-year-old person with cancer — so harshly? There is only one real reason, which is that I defended the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in my show, poems and articles, and spoke about the repression of the Church by the Ukrainian Government and its security organs.”

    2023-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9385 (2023) · source