On Monday, December 26, the rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate Pavel Lebed wrote down an appeal to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he complained that churches in the Lavra were being taken away from the UOC-MP. The appeal was published on the YouTube channel of the Lavra.
Pavel Lebed said and. Oleksandr Rudnik, General Director of the National Reserve "
“The director of the museum said that we can serve for the last time on December 31, and the very next day, January 1, we do not have the right to cross the threshold of the Refectory and Assumption Cathedral,” said the rector of the Lavra.
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He also complained that the UOC-MP had not been warned about this in writing for a month, although they “had”.
The BBC News Ukraine publication reported that a source in power close to the religious sphere confirmed the scenario of the development of events when, after the end of the lease of churches, representatives of the UOC-MP will not be allowed in.
This information was also confirmed by the chief editor of LB. ua Sonya Koshkina wrote that “the lease is everything” and this decision is final.
Metropolitan Pavel Lebed, in his address, also said that he had appealed to the Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko, but received no answer.. Therefore, he asks the president to protect the UOC-MP and urge the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada " He also asks that “people who are not related to the church do not indicate when we celebrate Christmas and which church we go to.”.
Recall that searches and other investigative actions have been taking place in the temples of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine for almost two months.. head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk stated that the Security Service is working primarily to detect traitors, and belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, according to him, is not an aggravating circumstance. He noted that more than 50 criminal proceedings have been opened against priests, 19 suspicions have been announced, as well as court verdicts.
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On December 1, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the National Security and Defense Council was asking the Verkhovna Rada to ban the work of the UOC-MP in Ukraine. He noted that the government will submit a relevant bill to the Parliament..
The confrontation between the UOC-MP and the Ukrainian authorities has reached a new level. As can be judged by some signs, the authorities, disappointed in the “peaceful settlement” of the problem of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine, switched to plan B. More about this in the article by Ekaterina Shchetkina "