Poroshenko called the "new church" in Ukraine a disaster for Russia

The corresponding statement Poroshenko published in his Twitter.

According to him, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that the collapse of the USSR was the main geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century for Russia.

He also quoted Ukrainian human rights activist Miroslav Marinovich.

“For Putin,” wrote Miroslav Marinovich, “the provision of autocephaly to Ukrainian Orthodoxy is the second geopolitical catastrophe.” This time, it is not the scale of centuries, but millennia, ”he said.

In addition, Poroshenko said that in January, along with the newly elected head of the “new church” Epiphanius, he would go to the Patriarch of Constantinople in Istanbul to get a tomos about autocephaly.

Earlier, Poroshenko announced the creation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church.