The head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, stated that every Russian bomb, rocket, and shell on Ukrainian soil finally kills the myths of "Holy Rus" and the "All-Russian nation"ю Ukrainians need to break with the "Russian world" forever.
Metropolitan wrote on Twitter: "Every Russian bomb, rocket, projectile on Ukrainian soil finally kills the myths of "Holy Rus "and the "All-Russian nation".
On 14 February, Metropolitan Epiphanius appealed to Ukrainians not to be afraid of a full-scale war launched by Russia but be ready to repel the enemy.
"There can be only one answer to the Kremlin's aggression for us, for the Ukrainian people: united resistance, protection of the native land, freedom and dignity, struggle against the aggressor till victory," he told Ukrainians almost on the eve of the invasion.
On the fourth day of the Russian war in Ukraine, the head of the OCU called on Patriarch Kirill to remove the bodies of the dead Russian servicemen from Ukraine. After all, the Ukrainian leadership appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross to facilitate the return of Russian military bodies to their homeland, but Russia did not respond.