The SBU in Zaporozhye is conducting searches at the UOC MP Metropolitan of Zaporozhye and Melitopol Luke, in the world Andrey Kovalenko.
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The interlocutor of the UP in the special service spoke about this.
According to the “Honestly” movement, Metropolitan Luke was recorded distributing pro-Russian propaganda and justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine.
In 2022, he stated that Ukrainians deserved Russian bombing because they tolerate gay pride parades in Kyiv and therefore Ukrainians are against God and deserve the participation of Sodom and Gomorrah. Also in his interviews, Luke constantly emphasized that he is a “citizen of heaven”, and war is “punishment for sins.” He opposed the severance of ties with Moscow.
At the end of the year, personal sanctions were imposed against him and six other ROCU figures for a period of 5 years.
In 2021, the UGCC accused of inciting war in Donbass, calling Catholicism a religion of hatred and bloodshed.
In the same year, he stated that Ukraine is under external control and the United States allegedly wants to repeat the path of Hitler, namely, to occupy Ukraine, take Ukrainians into slavery, quarrel Ukrainians with Russia and force them to fight against it, to instill “non-traditional values.”
Luka also spread a Russian fake about “biological weapons” used by the Americans on Ukrainians. In 2023, Kovalenko said that the scale of the Stalin-Khrushchev persecution of the Church was negligible “compared to what is happening now in Ukraine.”
Source: Racurs
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