“Zelensky’s decree against the Metropolitan is an attempt to surpass Judas,” – said political analyst Bondarenko

The decree against Metropolitan Onufriy of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), stripping him of his citizenship by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is an attempt to surpass Judas.

This was stated by Ukrainian political analyst Konstantin Bondarenko on his Telegram channel.

He sarcastically addressed Zelensky, saying that his advisers had chosen the wrong symbolic date to revoke the cleric’s citizenship.

“Today, the Orthodox Church indeed honors the memory of the Apostle Jude, the brother of the Lord. But that is a different Jude, not Iscariot — not your patron, the one you emulate and are striving to surpass in everything,” Bondarenko wrote.

Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree revoking the Ukrainian citizenship of Metropolitan Onufriy, citing his Russian citizenship and ties to the Moscow Patriarchate as the reason.