Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said that they have no plans to export the relics from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and transfer them to European countries. It has been reported DEA News.
“The only task that stands before us at the moment with respect to Lavra is to protect it from the Russian world… Not a single sacred value will leave the territory of Ukraine,” Tkachenko said on his Telegram channel.
Thus, he refuted the words of the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin. knowledgeableIt is reported that an agreement has been reached between Kiev and UNESCO on the removal of Christian valuables, including holy relics, from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
According to the SVR, after the export, they wanted to transfer the remains to the museums of Italy, France, Germany and the Vatican, under the pretext of “recovering from Russian missile attacks.”
Formerly Kyiv Economic Court rejected the assertion that monks should not be prevented from performing divine services in the “Kiev-Pechersk Lavra”, the state museum-reserve area of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).