It is being reported this morning, that Russian police have detained a priest for denouncing the country’s war on Ukraine. According to the Media Zona website, Fr. Ioann Burdin of the Resurrection Church in Russia’s western Kostroma region was arrested shortly after his sermon yesterday.
The British media has been swift to jump on the story. According to The Telegraph:
Father Ioann “committed a public offence aimed at discrediting the Russian armed forces which are conducting a special military operation” in Ukraine, according to a police report quoted by Media Zona.
He told the parishioners about “Russian troops in Ukraine shelling the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv and killing citizens of Ukraine – brothers and sisters in Christ,” the report said.
He faces a court hearing later this week.
Father Ioann’s parish last week posted a link to an online anti-war petition and a statement condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We, Christians, cannot stand idly by when a brother kills brother, a Christian kills a Christian,” it said.
“Let’s not repeat the crimes of those who hailed Hitler’s deeds on Sept 1, 1939.”
Is it true? Did the Russian police actually arrest a priest for denouncing war? Probably.
The independent media, most of which is as wretched as the legacy media, is painting the Ukraine crisis in broad strokes of black and white. The West is bad and Putin is good, they cry. They’ll denounce this as Western propaganda.
I’m not so sure. The Russians have admitted arresting thousands of peaceful anti-war protesters. There’s ample footage of them online, beating the Granny out of them too. That’s not good, is it?
In reality, the truth is, West bad and East bad too, isn’t it?
Our countries are led by multi-millionaires who answer to billionaires, who in turn take orders from figures whose names we’ll never know and whose faces we’ll probably never see.
They’re playing us like fiddles.
