During his annual marathon press conference on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused “ethnic Jews” of tearing apart the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine(UOC). He described them as “godless people,” “without any beliefs,” who are attacking the Church.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is a Jew, shutdown the UOC, after he signed a law on August 24, which bans religious organizations he accused of being sympathetic to Russia.
Putin said the Church is “being tortured” and that the opponents of the Church were neither Orthodox Christian nor Muslim. "They're tearing the Church apart but they're not even atheists," he said. "These are people without any beliefs, godless people, they're ethnic Jews, but has anyone seen them in a synagogue? I don't think so."
He added, "These are people without kin or memory, with no roots. They don't cherish what we cherish and the majority of the Ukrainian people cherish as well... They won't go to Church, they will go to the beach."
The Russian leader had attracted controversy in the past for pointing out that "up to 80-85% of the first Soviet government members were Jews."
Critics have pointed out that the Russian president had jailed some billionaire Jewish Oligarchs and forced others into exile, for their corrupting influence on government and culture.
And many argue that Putin is demonized in western media because Zelensky and his Zionist allies deeply despise the Russian leader for opposing their "degenerate globalist agenda," as one social media user put it.
One social media user went as far as accusing these globalists of deliberately fomenting wars like the one in Ukraine because "They just wanted White Christians to kill each other."
In a brazen scooter bomb attack in Moscow recently, Ukrainian agents killed a Russian General as he walked out of his home.
During Thursday's press conference, Putin also spoke about the recent collapse of President Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. The Russian leader said that Israel was the "main beneficiary."
Putin said Russia hoped that Israel would at some point leave Syrian territory. "But now it is bringing in additional troops there," he said. "I think there are already several thousand there. And I have the impression that not only are they not going to leave, but they are going to reinforce there."
