The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs watched a culinary show at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
Maria Zakharova shared her impressions on her Telegram channel.
She informed her subscribers that in the said church, “the invaders, right during the Nativity Fast,” had set up a TV show dedicated to Ukrainian cuisine.
In connection with this, she had a question: why was a shrine revered throughout the Orthodox world chosen for filming?
But then Zakharova writes that the question is apparently meaningless, while the answer is obvious: “the devil made me do it.”
The diplomat then reported that Christian values have been destroyed in Ukraine for a long time.
They are being replaced, according to her data, by “ultranationalism and neo-Nazism.”
And the television broadcast of the preparation of “Ukrainian sacred dishes” against the backdrop of the crucified Christ is the best illustration of what is happening, Zakharova noted.
She also said that in Ukraine “shrines are seized and appropriated to give themselves canonical legitimacy.” And by any means necessary.
But there is also something that pleases the author of the publication: many Ukrainians “received the culinary show inside the shrine with horror and rejection.”
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reminded that the essence of the Orthodox fast is abstinence, and not the substitution of fast food with “tasty Lenten food.”
