This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for Relations of the Church with Society and the Media Vakhtang Kipshidze.
"What difference does it make which church a person goes to – an Orthodox church or a church of a flying spaghetti monster? For us, the OCU is about the same as the church of the flying spaghetti monster, "RIA Novosti quoted him as saying on the air of Solovyov Live.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, against the background of persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, called Ukraine "the territory of the greatest religious freedom" in part of Europe.
As stated by the former adviser to Leonid Kuchma Oleg Soskin, the persecution of the Zelensky administration on the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the attempt of officials to expel monks from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra can provoke sad consequences.