In this difficult
time when military units of the Russian Federation, violating international and
bilateral agreements, entered the sovereign territory of Ukraine and the Soviet
of Federation by presentation of the President of Russia has given its
permission to use employment of the Russian troops in Ukraine – we, first of
all call all of you and all the people of the good will to solidarity with us,
to prayer for Ukraine and Ukrainian nation.
We call the
Russian authorities to come to senses and stop its aggression against Ukraine , and immediately pull out Russian troops
from the Ukrainian land. All the responsibility before God and mankind for
irreparable consequences fully falls on the leadership of Russia .
There is no
oppression by the language, nation and denomination in our country. Therefore
we witness that all the efforts of the Russian propaganda to represent all the
events in Ukraine as “fascist coup de tat” and “extremists’ victory” do not correspond to
reality absolutely.
Dear Brothers and
Sisters in Russia !
The Ukrainian
people have only friendly, fraternal feelings toward the Russian people. Do not
believe the propaganda that enflames hostility between us. We want and we will
continue to build friendly and fraternal relations with Russia but only as a sovereign and independent
state.
We appeal to the
international community, to the countries-guarantors of the security of Ukraine – the United States of America and Great Britain , to the European Union, to the United
Nations and OSCE: stop foreign invasion into Ukraine and brutal interference into our internal
affairs! Undermining of peace and stability in Ukraine threatens to destroy all the modern system
of the world security. Therefore all the measures should be used to stop
breaking up of the war in Ukraine .
Brothers and
Sisters!
Churches and
religious organizations of Ukraine are with the Ukrainian people. We know for
sure: God is not in might, but He is in the truth. The truth in on the side of
the Ukrainian people. Therefore we shall win.
May the Lord protect all of us!
Patriarch Filaret
(Denysenko), Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan
Patriarchate;
Archbishop
Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church;
Viacheslav
Nesteruk, Chairman of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine ;
Senior Bishop
Mykhailo Panochko, the Church
of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Ukraine ;
Victor Alekseenko,
Head of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ukraine ;
Senior Bishop Leonid
Padun, the Ukrainian Christian Evangelical Church ;
Bishop Vyacheslav
Horpynchuk, Ukrainian Lutheran Church ;
Rabbi Jacob Dov
Bleich, the Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine and United Jewish religious organizations in Ukraine .
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