All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations in the Conditions of Full-Scale Russian Military Aggression Against Ukraine

The purpose of the work is to examine the activities of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) during the full-scale Russian military aggression against Ukraine. The methodology of scientific research is based on the use of a complex of general scientific, special historical methods and an interdisciplinary approach, tools of religious studies and sociology. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that here, on the basis of a wide source base, the activities of the Russian Federation of Civil and Political Affairs in the conditions of a full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war are considered. As a result, the authors come to the following conclusions. AUCCRO, in the conditions of full-scale Russian military aggression against Ukraine, intensified activities to mobilize Ukrainian society and the international community to confront the aggressor. In her appeals to the international community, she called for military and humanitarian support to Ukraine; seek the release of soldiers and civilians imprisoned by the aggressor state. Not without reason, the interfaith body demanded to recognize the actions of the Russian military as genocide of the Ukrainian people. In order to support Ukraine, AUCCRO strengthened cooperation with international humanitarian organizations; members of the Council visited individual countries and held meetings with the public, political and religious figures; and also met world religious leaders in Ukraine. In recent years, AUCCRO continued its law-making activities and discussion of important areas of state-church relations with representatives of higher state authorities of Ukraine. However, the position of AUCCRO was not always taken into account, in particular during the ratification by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the Istanbul Convention and the adoption of the Law on the Legalization of Medical Cannabis.