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Patriarch Filaret urged UN, OSCE and other international organization to name DNR and LNR as terrorist organization

14.01.2015, 09:55
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тероризм.jpgStatement by the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine Philaret on the bus attack (near Volnovakha in Donetsk region) by pro-Kremlin terrorists

On January 13, 2015 in the afternoon, from the territory controlled by pro-Kremlin terrorists of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, there was carried out shelling of Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint near the settlement of Volnovakha, – the Donetsk region. As a result of shelling more than ten civilians who were in a bus were killed and about twenty wounded.

According to Ukrainian officials, shelling in direction of checkpoint was conducted by terrorists from the residential area of settlement Dokuchaevsk to cause shooting in the response of the Ukrainian armed forces. To Dokuchaevsk, the settlement under the control of terrorists, there came Russian and pro-Kremlin journalists who were intended to film the “Ukrainian armed forces shelling peaceful settlement” to use these pictures in anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

This shameful and bloody terrorist act is one of hundreds or even thousands of terrorist acts (since the spring of last year), which always being committed by pro-Kremlin forces in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The killing of civilians by terrorists is a terrible and shameful thing, but even more shameful is the purpose of this act – putting at risk the lives of civilians on the territory controlled by terrorists to create “television picture” for the Kremlin propaganda.

Terrorism has no justification in any form and under any slogans. This is an evil that must not only be morally condemned, but punished according to Ukrainian and international law.

Various pro-Kremlin illegal armed groups in the so-called Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic are already recognized in Ukraine to be terrorists. The shelling by terrorists the bus with civilians near Volnovakha is a criminal act that puts out a loud demand on the international community to recognize the so-called DPR, LPR and armed groups acting on their side, to be terrorist organizations.

I, on behalf of the Kiev Patriarchate, make appeal for the United Nations, the OSCE, member states of the European Union, the USA, Canada and the international community to recognize the so-called DPR, LPR and armed groups operating on their side as terrorist organizations, and recognize any country, organization or persons who support them – as the sponsors of terrorism with all legal consequences.

I call on the faithful to pray for the souls of the dead, healing for the wounded, for victory in the fight against terrorism and for justice and peace in Ukraine.

May God help all who fight for truth and against the terrorist evil!

PHILARET,
Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine