{"id":8749,"date":"2026-01-27T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:12:33","slug":"golova-rpc-ukrainian-leaders-of-satanists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/world\/golova-rpc-ukrainian-leaders-of-satanists\/","title":{"rendered":"ROC head calls Ukrainian leaders \u00absatanists\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kirill calls Zelensky, Budanov and Poroshenko \u00absatanists\u00bb<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"347\" data-end=\"601\">Patriarch of Moscow <strong data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"396\">cyril<\/strong>, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church, publicly called the President of Ukraine <strong data-start=\"475\" data-end=\"501\">Vladimir Zelensky<\/strong>, head of the OP <strong data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"536\">Kirill Budanov<\/strong> and the fifth president of Ukraine <strong data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"586\">Petro Poroshenko<\/strong> \u00abSatanists\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"794\">According to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, it is possible to \u00abdefeat\u00bb Ukrainian leaders only by <strong data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"708\">\u00abprayer and fasting\u00bb<\/strong>. The statements were made as part of a sermon dedicated to the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"796\" data-end=\"812\">Details of the application<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"1064\">Kirill once again used religious vocabulary to demonise the Ukrainian leadership, presenting the war as a \u00abspiritual confrontation\u00bb. Such statements have been regularly made by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church since 2022 and accompany Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1124\">The patriarch did not provide any evidence or explanation for his words.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1138\">Context.<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1140\" data-end=\"1339\">The Russian Orthodox Church under Kirill's leadership has effectively become <strong data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1258\">part of the state propaganda machine of the Russian Federation<\/strong>, openly supporting the war and justifying violence with religious arguments.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1341\" data-end=\"1506\">Statements about the \u00absatanism\u00bb of the Ukrainian authorities are part of an information campaign aimed at dehumanising Ukraine and mobilising Russian society around the war.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1645\">Ukrainian and international human rights activists have repeatedly 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