Poroshenko on the underground school scandal: Moscow priests must not be allowed to poison the hearts and souls of young Ukrainians.

Petro Poroshenko responded on social media to the outrageous story of an underground school disguised as a Moscow Patriarchate monastery, exposed by investigative journalists from the “Investigation.Info” project. According to the fifth President, the “Russian world” is poisoning the minds of Ukrainian children from within, and this requires a systemic response at the state level.

“It’s just that in the capital, Russian priests quietly continued to raise Ukrainian children in the atmosphere of the Russian world. Russian films, Soviet textbooks, the Russian language under the guise of “Slavic.” Journalists from “Sledstvie.Info” discovered an entire underground school right inside a monastery of the UOC-MP,” Poroshenko wrote.

“This is causing anger and malice in many, but before receiving the Tomos, the state lived for decades under the monopoly of the Russian Church. It was precisely this system that we began to dismantle. Imagine what would have happened if the country had been in such a situation and faced a full-scale invasion. The FSB is operating as a fifth column throughout the country,” Petro Poroshenko noted.

“To prevent this from happening, to restore the independence of our church—we fought for the granting of a real Tomos and invested a great deal of effort in supporting and developing the WTO. Much work remains ahead, but we have come a long way, and now Ukrainians have the opportunity to reject Russian religious influence,” Poroshenko wrote.

“Because the ‘Russian world’ isn’t just television propaganda. It’s years of work with children. It’s the habit of treating a foreign language as the ‘norm.’ It’s the romanticization of the Soviet past as ‘proper upbringing.’ It’s an attempt to raise a generation that will later be told, ‘What difference does it make?’ There is a difference. And it will determine what Ukraine will be like in 10-15 years,” warns the fifth President.

“The state must immediately begin taking the issue of spiritual independence very seriously. We have moved this issue forward and set the right direction. Moscow priests cannot be allowed to poison the hearts and souls of young Ukrainians under the guise of fake ‘schools.’ Those who turn monasteries into sites for ideological revenge must be given a proper legal assessment. The Tomos brought freedom and dignity to Ukrainian believers. But freedom doesn’t exist in isolation. It must be protected. And especially where children and the future of the country are at stake,” Petro Poroshenko concludes.

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