Russian
security services plan to use a sacred procession to Kyiv of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to organize provocations, a representative
of Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry, Vadym Skibitsky has
said.
"The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense
Ministry confirms the information about the attempt of Russian intelligence to
use the religious procession to destabilize the situation in Ukraine. According
to our information, the purpose of such actions is radicalization of
interconfessional hatred and deepening the split of society on the religious
basis," Skibitsky said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
Skibitsky said that Russian security services intend
to organize provocations against the participants of the religious march
"with the involvement of criminal groups."
"It is planned to organize collisions with their
help near the houses of worship and crowded places of believers. Special
attention will be focused on information and psychological influence on the
Ukrainian population due to negative coverage of events in the pro-Russian
media," Skibitsky said.
Skibitsky stressed that these actions are aimed at
destabilizing the internal situation in the country, while "the army
restrains the aggressor burst into our state in the east of Ukraine."
"In light of continuing aggression, we appeal to
all citizens, including journalists, with an appeal to prevent opening of the
second Russian information front against our country and our people."
It was reported that an All-Ukrainian religious
procession of peace, love and prayer, organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church (of the Moscow Patriarchate), began on July 3. On July 27, on the eve of
the celebration of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine, participants of the two columns
intend to meet in Kyiv, on the Volodymyrska Hirka (St. Volodymyr Hill) and walk
together towards the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra where a prayer ceremony is due to take
place.
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