Former deputy from the Party of Regions, who relatively recently spoke about "

According to the press service of the Kharkiv diocese, Dobkin was appointed deacon of the UOC-MP personally by Metropolitan of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine Onufry, who led the service at the Holy Annunciation Cathedral in Kharkiv on the Annunciation.

“During the divine service, Metropolitan Onufry consecrated a graduate of the Kharkov Theological Seminary Mikhail Dobkin as a deacon,” the message says..

Recall that a trusted ally of Vladimir Putin, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, refused to condemn the Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine and called Russia’s opponents in Ukraine an “evil force”. In his Sunday sermon before Lent, he said that one of the reasons for the war in Ukraine was gay parades organized in the West..

Subsequently, a number of Christian churches distanced themselves from Russian Orthodoxy and Patriarch Kirill, and some parthias of the UOC-MP in Ukraine began to come under the jurisdiction of the OCU.

As for the head of the UOC-MP, Metropolitan Onufry, on the first day of the war, he called on the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, to immediately stop the " However, there were no statements about a possible break with the Russian Orthodox Church, which approves the brutal war in Ukraine..