DESS expert: West doesn’t give us weapons over UOC’s fakes about repression
State Ethnopolitics expert O. Sagan. Photo: a screenshot of the YouTube channel “Ukrainian Media Centre”
An expert of the State Ethnopolitics Service and head of the Religious Studies Department at the Institute of Philosophy, Oleksandr Sagan, complained at a conference on the occasion of World Religion Day that Western countries do not give Ukraine weapons because of the information spread about the government's repression against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The broadcast of the conference was published on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Media Centre.
In Sagan's opinion, the information in the West about the persecution against the UOC is false. He is convinced that there is no persecution.
"The use of those fakes abroad and attempts to show Ukraine as an undemocratic country or a country where the rights and freedoms of believers are violated may lead to the restriction of military and economic aid to Ukraine," Sagan warned and recalled that in 2023 such calls sounded "at least" from the mouth of Trump Jr.
According to Sagan, Trump tried to use the information of the UOC that "we seem to have persecution of freedom of conscience or persecution of believers to limit or altogether stop aid to Ukraine as a country where basic human freedoms are violated".
As earlier reported, according to US presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Ukraine is banning UOC Christians for US money.
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