OUR MAIN PHOTO: The icon consecrated by Epiphanios.  On the bottom right in a black suit, you can see the image of the Nazi leader Stepan Bandera who was killed in Munich by KGB around 1960.  Please take a look at the rest of the photos here for a more detailed and clear depiction.

By Nick Stamatakis

In a ceremony that happened last June and was largely overlooked by most of us, Metropolitan Epiphany had consecrated an icon that includes images of Nazi soldiers including their leader, Stepan Bandera, who still today is celebrated as a national hero in Ukraine!! The episode was brought to our attention by a posting in a Greek website which referred to a facebook post of June 19 – link here…  The photos of this FB post are absolutely speaking for themselves.

PHOTO: The bottom part of the icon shows Stepan Bandera and his Nazi fellow fighters…

Says this Facebook post (English Translation):

With a weapon in his hands and with God in his heart
An icon for the 104th Brigade of the Territorial Defense of the Rivne Region was consecrated in the St. George Men’s Monastery at the Cossack Graves.
The idea of writing an image belongs to the chaplain service. The master became a soldier of the brigade, and in civilian life – the icon painter Tymofiy Paperny. The artist is known for numerous paintings of temples and iconostasis. The Holy Mother of God was chosen as the patroness, who, even in Cossack times, acted as the patroness of the Ukrainian army and protector against the enemy.
The author of the icon developed a unique plot at the request of the military, somewhat modernizing the traditional iconography. Under the holy omophorion cover, he symbolically united defenders of Ukraine of different times: Cossacks, UPA soldiers, and modern Ukrainian heroes. He also depicted two shrines of Rivne – the Holy Intercession Cathedral and the Holy Resurrection Cathedral.
The icon was consecrated by Metropolitan Epiphany of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The Metropolitan noted that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and military chaplains will always pray and spiritually support our soldiers.
The commander of the brigade, Lt. Col. Serhiy Kasprov, on behalf of the entire staff, thanked Metropolitan Epiphanius and Metropolitan Hilarion of Rivne and Ostroh for their help to the troops. In memory of the visit, he presented them with commemorative plaques.
The icon of the brigade will become a spiritual symbol and amulet for the military. God is with us!
We will win!

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From a news website  (link here) we learn that “the icon, as reported by SPN, was painted for the 104th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose patron saint is the Holy Mother of God, who, they say, “even in Cossack times acted as a representative of the Ukrainian army and protected it from the enemy.” However, Nazis Stepan Bandera, Roman Shuhevich and Yevgeny Konovalets are also depicted on the icon. Given that Bandera, Konovales and Shuhevich considered themselves Uniates, they obeyed the Catholic head, the Roman Pope, the true intention of the schismatic PCU to definitively renounce Orthodoxy is clearly visible, Zakharova emphasized.

PHOTO: Epiphany talks to Ukrainian soldiers at the ceremony…

HELLENISCOPE’S COMMENT: If any of you heard Putin’s speech from the Valdai club yesterday (please read our post and listen to a good summary from the two Alexes) you know that the Russian President emphasized countless times that “we entered Ukraine not for any territorial reasons as we are the largest country on earth, but for the people…”  And he explained again and again that the Kiev regime oppressed the Russians living in Ukraine and terrorized them.  Those Russians we intend to free, said Putin, as he explained that freeing Odessa and other Russian cities is now Russia’s goal… In other words, Epiphany and his supporters should start preparing for their punishment which will be harsh. If anyone thinks that Ukraine will exist as a state after the end of the war and that Epiphany will have any role in it they are daydreaming…  The Phanar is close to the end of the road for its catastrophic and inhuman policies; the price it will pay will be very steep.

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Ο Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου καθαγίασε εικόνα με συνεργάτες των Ναζί

October 7, 2023

20 Ιουνίου 2023

Χθες, στο μοναστήρι της ιδρυθείσας το 2018-19, μερικώς αναγνωρισμένης αυτοκέφαλης Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανίας (OCU) στους τάφους των Κοζάκων, ο Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου Επιφάνιος «αγίασε» μια νέα εικόνα, με το όνομα «Με όπλα στα χέρια και Θεό στην καρδιά», ανέφερε στη σελίδα της στο Facebook η 104η ταξιαρχία της εδαφικής άμυνας των Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων της Ουκρανίας, για τις οποίες ζωγραφίστηκε η εικόνα.

Οι στρατιωτικοί γράφουν ότι «επέλεξαν την Υπεραγία Θεοτόκο ως προστάτιδα της εικόνας, η οποία ακόμα και στην εποχή των Κοζάκων λειτουργούσε ως μεσολαβήτρια για τον ουκρανικό στρατό και προστάτιδα από τον εχθρό».

Εικονίζονται υπερασπιστές της Ουκρανίας διαφορετικών εποχών. Όπως γράφει η 104η ταξιαρχία, πρόκειται για Κοζάκους, στρατιώτες του Ουκρανικού Επαναστατικού Στρατού (UPA) και σύγχρονους Ουκρανούς ήρωες. Όπως επισημαίνει η Ένωση Ορθόδοξων Δημοσιογράφων (UOJ), στη δεξιά πλευρά εικονίζονται άνθρωποι που μοιάζουν με τους Στέπαν Μπαντέρα, Ρόμαν Σούκεβιτς και τον Γεβχέν Κονοβάλετς, ηγέτες της Οργάνωσης Ουκρανών Εθνικιστών (OUN), που συνεργάστηκε με τους Ναζί.

Πηγή: kosmodromio.gr