President: Tomos is, in fact, another Act of Declaration of Ukraine's Independence
“Tomos is actually another Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. The empire is losing one of the last levers of influence on its former colony,” President Poroshenko said.
“The issue of Tomos and Autocephaly goes far beyond the church life, as the State has joined it. This is a matter of our independence. This is a matter of our national security. This is a matter of our statehood. This is a matter of the entire global geopolitics,” the President emphasized.
“This is the fall of the "Third Rome" as the most ancient conceptual claim of Moscow for the global domination,” the President added.
“Autocephaly is the part of our pro-European and pro-Ukrainian state strategy, which we have been consistently implementing over the past four years and, I emphasize, which we will implement hereafter. This is the foundation of our own path of development, the development of the State of Ukraine and the development of the Ukrainian nation,” the Head of State noted.