Russia initiated a meeting of the UN Security Council under the pretext of " It took place on January 17 in New York.

According to Suspіlna, France's Permanent Representative Nicolas de Riviere noted that Russia is again trying to distract the international community from pressing issues..

“By using religious freedom, she is diverting the attention of this council and the international community from almost a year of Russian aggression, causing great suffering to the sovereign Ukrainian people.. We condemn Russian missile strikes on the Dnieper. And today's meeting, another example of Russian misinformation, is being cynically. This meeting was convened under the pretext of protecting religious freedom, but meanwhile there was no cessation of hostilities during the Orthodox holidays,"

The representative of Albania, Ferit Hoxha, noted that "

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Security Council Serhiy Kyslitsa said that Russia requires the international community to listen to nonsense.

And China's representative Zhang Jun urged the parties to negotiate peace: China has always said that the protection of religious rights must be protected.

parties to act rationally and join the dialogue"

Recall that earlier, commenting on the searches in the temples of the UOC-MP, the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk also said that the Security Service is working primarily to detect traitors. And belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, according to him, is not an aggravating circumstance..

On December 1, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the National Security and Defense Council was asking the Verkhovna Rada to ban the work of the UOC-MP in Ukraine. He noted that the government will submit a relevant bill to the Parliament.. It seems that in Ukraine the authorities were disappointed in the " What "