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The Security Service has collected an evidentiary base on Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Georgiy Shevkunov (known as Tikhon), who supports the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine and justifies the war crimes of the rashists.
According to the investigation, the subject is the main spiritual mentor of Putin and one of the leading ideologues of the Kremlin regime.
As the investigation found, Tikhon was one of the first to support the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into our state and called for assistance to the armed groups of the aggressor country.
It has been established that already in 2023 he was appointed administrator of the so-called Crimean Metropolia of the Russian Orthodox Church on the territory of the Ukrainian peninsula.
In this position the cleric used the opportunities of the eparchy to comprehensively spread rashism in the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine’s territory.
In addition, Tikhon regularly takes part in public appearances where he justifies the shelling of Ukrainian cities and campaigns for the further occupation of the entire territory of our state.
A professional examination initiated by the Security Service confirmed the facts of the subject’s information-sabotage activities in the interests of the aggressor country.
On the basis of the collected evidence, SBU investigators have notified Metropolitan Tikhon in absentia of suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
part 2 of article 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine);
part 3 of article 436-2 (justification, recognition as lawful, denial of the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants).
Comprehensive measures are underway to bring him to criminal responsibility for crimes against our state.
The investigation was conducted under the procedural supervision of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Security Service of Ukraine
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