According to the deputy, the event connected with the signing of the Tomos, which has no canonical force, marked the beginning of the process of “pillaging the parishes of the UOC-MP” (the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate).
“Unfortunately, it can be stated that there is no more religious freedom in Ukraine,” added Poklonskaya.
It became known earlier that Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed the tomos about the autocephaly of the PFC.
Subsequently, the Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko awarded him the Order of Merit, I degree.