Metropolitan Pavlo (Lebid) of Vyshhorod and Chornobyl, abbot of the Holy Assumption Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate, declared that ‘secret US laboratories’ are scattered over the former Soviet Union, where they breed ‘mosquitoes’ and other poisonous creatures.

Metropolitan Pavlo (Lebid) of Vyshhorod and Chornobyl, abbot of the Holy Assumption Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate, declared that ‘secret US laboratories’ are scattered over the former Soviet Union, where they breed ‘mosquitoes’ and other poisonous creatures.

Metropolitan Pavlo shared his thoughts with the journalists of the Moscow propaganda edition Ukraina.ru, reports Credo.Ru.

“Today, the disease is invisible. Well, they themselves are not available. This is in the laboratory. I have recently overheard that there are several laboratories in the territory of the former Soviet Union, American ones, that infect mosquitoes, infect other insects, animals, and release them into the world in order to endanger the population,” the hierarch said.

It is noteworthy that the Metropolitan was criticized even by the Russian Orthodox Church. In particular, the former chairman of the Synodal Department for Interaction of the Church and Society of the Russian Orthodox Church, Fr Vsevolod Chaplin, known for his radical views, advised the Metropolitan to provide evidence of the existence of “mosquitoes” before making such statements.