KIEV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th June, 2020) Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday that a criminal case was launched against him because the Ukrainian Orthodox Church received a tomos of autocephaly, marking its independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.
"It turns out they launched another case against me � I am quoting word-for-word, I am not making this up � for inciting inter-religious hatred by receiving a tomos and creating the [non-canonical] Orthodox Church of Ukraine," Poroshenko said at a rally of his supporters gathered in front of the court building.
