Following the example of Ukrainian politicians, a high-ranking cleric from Kiev is now accusing Russia and drawing comparisons to Nazi Germany. According to him, in the port city of Mariupol, the corpses of killed civilians are burned day and night in ‘mobile crematoria’. Europe had seen crematoria of this type close to the city “only during World War II in Maidanek, Auschwitz and other well-known Nazi concentration camps,” said Kiev Greek Catholic Major Archbishop Svyatoslav Shevchuk.
“Smoke from crematorium rises again from Ukrainian soil into the air,” he added to Kathpress about the war. Shevchuk cited information from the Mariupol City Council that Russia used mobile crematoria to remove all evidence of crimes committed by its own army.
City turned into “extermination camp”.
The occupying forces had turned the city in eastern Ukraine into an “extermination camp”, Mayor Vadym Boychenko said on Wednesday. “This is the new Auschwitz and Majdanek.” The allegations of crematoria use cannot currently be independently verified in the surrounded city.
“Patterns of the Nazis”
Major Archbishop Shevchuk said the Russian ideology was aimed at the destruction of the Ukrainian people “according to the Nazi model”. Moscow pursues the “ideology of the final solution”. The National Socialists used the cynical term “Final Solution” to describe the systematic genocide of the Jews during World War II. In his video address on Tuesday, Shevchuk said: “Let’s do everything we can to end the new murderous ideology that is bearing fruit on Ukrainian soil, an ideology that is perhaps worse than Nazism. This ideology is still waiting for its trials in Nuremberg.”
The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Communities, meanwhile, called on all states around the world to “recognize the genocide of the Ukrainian people during the Russian invasion of 2022”. They must also condemn the “Russian world” ideology for justifying genocide and the destruction of an entire state, the statement said on Wednesday.
Source: Krone
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