Deputies of the Chernivtsi District Council appealed to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the Verkhovna Rada and the government of the country with a call to ban the activities of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). DEA News.
The deputies also urged Kiev to make an “urgent registration” of documents of religious communities that “changed their nationality in canonical and organizational matters” and “decided to transfer them to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church”.
The resolution was supported by 33 deputies, three against and two abstained.
Before that, the Lviv Regional Council also He insisted Ban the activities of the UOC. 54 out of 84 deputies voted in favor of the resolution.
In November, Ukraine started the signature collection process. petition On the prohibition of the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) on the territory of Ukraine. The document collected the necessary 25,000 signatures for consideration by the president.