Donbass Won't Forgive Kiev for Murders of Civilians, UOC Spokesman Believes

July 21, 2014

    

The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Press Service, Vasily Anisimov, criticizes the Kiev authorities for military actions in Eastern Ukraine, reports Interfax.

"For example, I have a friend in Lugansk, who believed Donbass[1] should be with Ukraine. Today, he wonders: if Kiev mops up Lugansk, how will they live with us after it? Every family has some relatives, some friends killed, and no one is going to forgive the Kiev authorities for it," Anisimov said in his interview published on Monday by the Radonezh Community website.

"I also am amazed: President Poroshenko was brought up in Transnistria and he knows better than anyone else that bloodshed divided Moldavia more than any one person. Everyone has forgotten the presidents and politicians who provoked the bloody massacre, but no one can forget or forgive the murder of the people," he said.

According to Anisimov, there were many hopes when Poroshenko was elected president, "many people supposed that he would set up peace, unite the country, and lead it on the road to development."

"But the inertia of war, and the violence promoted by propaganda is great and there is still no will for peace and accord. I even have the impression that our authorities, in reality, are temporary. Blood is shed, there are dozens if not hundreds of thousands of refugees, and cities and villages are destroyed. Who will restore them?" he asks.

The spokesman believes it necessary to create an attractive, unifying image of the central power, "not using PR methods, but by concrete actions and steps."

"We have a traditional image of power -a paternal image. A leader should be like a father, he should care for everyone – both for the obedient and the negligent, and not destroy them with attack planes and GRAD[2] rockets. Then it will really be one country - one family,” he declared.


[1] “Donbass” = Donets Basin

[2] GRAD rockets. “Grad” = “hailstones” in Russian. The Grad system is a truck carrying 40 rockets that can be launched all at once (like ‘hail.’).

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Comments
Gregory8/1/2014 5:28 pm
When the Russians end their occupation of Crimea and cut off support for the terroists in eastern Ukraine, then people themselves will get on with rebuilding their lives. Ukrainians are not in a civil war compareable to the American War between the States. Apples ro oranges.
S. S. Gutzalenko7/27/2014 2:42 am
Interestingly enough, the adamant refusal to accept semi-autonomous legal conditions for sections of a country characterizes the relatively new form of democratic political structure, i.e., "federation" or in the case of United States, "Union." As the classical example, the United States preferred to have a civil War, rather than negotiating a semi-autonomous condition for its Confederate States. So it is doubly strange that Ukraine, which is neither a Federation, nor a Union, has so ferociously attacked one of its sections which was just trying to acquire some limited autonomy, to preserve its cultural diversity. The two halves were forcefully kept together under the artificially promoted Soviet Ukrainian Republic and continued together under the mild democracy of the Russian-friendly arrangement after the Perestroyka. In fact, the most notable parallel to such a culturally-triggered division of a country in Europe came as consequence of the American intervention in the civil war in Serbia-Bosnia. Regrettably, the USA is now reversing its political stance by siding with the ultra-nationalist aggressive portion of this current civil war in Ukraine.
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