The Head of the UGCC took part in the laying of flowers in the forest of Bykivnia

A wreath-laying ceremony was attended by the Acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and others. "Today we are recollecting the Day of Remembrance of totalitarian regimes. This year, the day prophetically coincides with the 70th anniversary of the tragedy of the Crimean Tatars", - said His Beatitude Sviatoslav. The Primate noted that particularly this day is experienced here in Bykivnia forest where lie hundreds of thousands of innocent murdered by the Nazis, Stalin’s satraps, all those who are deprived of life by totalitarian ideologies and regimes. According to him, the people gathered here to pray, ask the Lord God to make the Ukrainian lands never be washed by innocent blood. " Let those hundreds of thousands of innocent victims of different nationalities: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Jews, Tatars, Belarusians, Latvians, Lithuanians, who are buried here, are praying before God today for Ukraine, for our people. And we are mindful of them, put our memory like a ban for such never be revived in any totalitarian, inhuman misanthropic ideology in our God-blessed Ukrainian lands"- asks to think over the Head of the Church. "Eternal memory to the heroes, eternal memory of all the innocent victims who are buried in Bykivnia Forest" - wished His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

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