Ukraine’s president invited the heads of the Ukrainian Churches who signed the address requesting to release the ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to meet with him.
According to the website of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Ukraine, the meeting will take place on April 10, at 2 p.m., in the office of the Presidential Administration.
Let us remind the readers that the letter of the ministers was read out by the head of the Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Spirituality, Volodymyr Yavorivskyi, at a press conference on April 2.
Yavorivskyi noted that “the ministers are throwing to the president a buoy to let him save the image of the country by releasing Tymoshenko from prison.”
The letter was signed by Patriarch Filaret of UOC-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Administrator of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, Markian Trofymiak, Viacheslav Nesteruk of the Union of Churches of Evangelical Christians Baptists, Senior Bishop Mykhailo Panochko of the Union of Churches of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Ukraine, Senior Bishop Leonid Padun of the Ukrainian Christian Evangelical Church, Metropolitan Mefodii of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.