Posted on 12/02/2022 9:43:12 AM PST by Kazan
In May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law No. 7172-1 that will ban opposition parties and seize their property. The law targets opposition parties if they deny the armed aggression against Ukraine.
The law includes actions that support the Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus, the two invading countries.
The news was first published on the Ukrainian news website UKRinform. This news was reported the same day US GOP Senators paid him a visit in Kyiv to show their support.
Zelenskyy also closed all of the TV stations and consolidated them into one state-run channel.
“Ukraine has had to take extraordinary measures to fight Russia’s invasion. Among them, the government has consolidated the country’s television outlets and dissolved rival political parties. It says it needs to do this to maintain a united front in fighting Russia,” NPR reported.
On Friday, after banning all TV platforms in Ukraine into one state broadcast, jailing political rivals, and restricting political parties, Zelensky now banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
“A meeting of the NSDC (National Security Defense Council) was held today,” said Zelensky. “A meeting at which we examined numerous facts of the ties of certain religious circles in Ukraine with the aggressor state.”
“It is necessary to create such conditions in which any figures dependent on the aggressor country will not be able to manipulate Ukrainians and weaken Ukraine from within,” he continued, referring to Russia, which invaded Ukraine in late February.
“The NSDC instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament) a bill on the impossibility of the activities of religious organizations affiliated with the centers of influence in the Russian Federation in Ukraine,” added Zelensky.
“In addition, the state Service for Ethnopolitics and freedom of Conscience has been instructed to ensure the religious studies examination of the Statute on the Management of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for the presence of a church-canonical connection with the Moscow Patriarchate and if necessary, apply the measures provided for by law.”
Zelensky is a fine little WEF commie. And I am not surprised GOP Senators kissed the little commies backside. The Uniparty exists.
It would be Russia that should be afraid of some Ukrainians starting a coup in Russia, not Ukraine thinking Russia will use churches in Ukraine to start a coup in Ukraine as the Salon article below lays out.
It was some Ukrainians, not Russians, that participated in an coup against a pro-Russian president of Ukraine whom the voters in Ukraine knew he leaned towards Russia and not the EU, and yet after a free and fair election the majority of Ukrainians chose him anyway. Then a coup afterwards regardless.
Salon
2/2/2022
“Most American politicians and corporate media have fallen in line with a one-sided narrative that paints Russia as the aggressor in Ukraine, and support sending more and more weapons to Ukrainian government forces. After decades of U.S. military disasters based on such one-sided narratives, Americans should know better by now. But what are our leaders and the corporate media not telling us this time?
The most critical events that have been airbrushed out of the West’s political narrative are the violation of agreements made by Western leaders at the end of the Cold War not to expand NATO into Eastern Europe, and the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in February 2014. Western mainstream media accounts date the crisis in Ukraine back to Russia’s 2014 reintegration of Crimea, and the decision by ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to secede from Ukraine as the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. ...”
Also from Salon: “Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt mentioned Tyahnybok as one of the leaders they were working with in their infamous leaked phone call..”
Doing it with the full support of the US government and billions of our dollars.
Democracy always dies a little in times of war.
Let’s see what happens when the war is over or when it’s time for people to ‘take their country back’.
Exaggerations like “tyrant’ should not be playing a part right now.
“Democracy always dies a little in times of war.”
Especially so when Zelensky obviously wasn’t the liberal democracy vanguard he was made out to be.
Don’t look behind the curtain, just send money.
NATO and its globalist backers will install the High Holy Church of GLOBOHOMO.
The Russian Orthodox Church is a tool of the KGB. They also spread Liberation Theology. And they tried to canonize Stalin.
‘Don’t look behind the curtain, just send money.’
Pretty much, Sir, and that is how the Western/US/UK/EU/NATO propaganda ridden media has been steadily peddling it.
Ironic tho given the same propaganda ridden media, prior to the Ukraine-Russia conflict start, was saying/indicating otherwise.
But yeah, now it’s, ‘Don’t look behind the curtain, just send money.’ Indeed.
Russia has used Orthodoxy for centuries to play divide and conquer in Belarus and Ukraine. Nothing new here. The country is at war and those who identify more with a Russian church than a Ukrainian church are suspect in Ukraine. When a country is at war, certain freedoms are lost.
Your article lies. Zelensky announces crackdown on Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
Not the “Ukrainian Orthodox church”, rather the Putin affiliated Moscow church
So before Ukraine crisis they were “Putin propagandists”?
LOL.
Pretty much. ;-)
Only neocon dim wit would keep pretending Ukraine resembles a free country or democracy.
You know damn well what is happening in Ukraine is nothing but proxy war being fought in the name of the "liberal world order" and money laundering operation for our political elite, defense industry and oligarchs, one cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.
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