Priest Pavel Borshevschi, bishop of the Chisinau Church “Saint Dumitru”, said the death of those killed in Ukraine will be primarily on Patriarch Kirill’s conscience as he supports this war. “He blesses tanks, planes, along this to shell. They shell houses with innocent older people and children. The temperature in my home is as in your home, rather low probably, but I think about those from Ukraine who do not have electricity, gas, water and there are older people there,” the priest stated in the program “Reflection Points” on Vocea Basarabiei station.

The priest said he was surprised by Patriarch Kirill and those who serve this in his ideology and even the Pope of Rome reportedly asked Patriarch Kirill if he became the altar boy of Putin. The homeland should be defended, but this does not imply the blessing of tanks with holy water. “I say “our Patriarch” because he is the patriarch of Romanian faithful too and he is mentioned in all the services. His father was a priest in the church that until now canonically was subordinate to Moscow,” stated Pavel Borshevschi.

According to him, the Russians are called liberators, but who they liberate the people into whose homes they broke into from? “Entering another territory, another country, someone’s home and doing what you want there are sins. That’s why this war is as it was called by Metropolitan Bishop Onufriy of Kiev, of Ukraine, who is also persecuted as he was subordinate to Moscow during the Patriarchate of Moscow. He is cruelly persecuted, but there is a real war there and right on the second day he urged: Vladimir Vladimirivoch Putin, stop the fratricide war!,” said the priest, noting it is better to become a prisoner than to kill brothers in Ukraine.