The Ukrainian Orthodox Church published the call of Metropolitan Onufry to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky about the situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. This is stated in a post on the website. UOC.
“But the difficult situation in the religious sphere has deteriorated critically after it became known that the state authorities planned to evacuate our monastic community from the territory of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, where the monks literally raised it from ruins in thirty-five years. Since the resumption of the activities of this former monastery,” it said.
Earlier, law enforcement officers gave orders to the councilors of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). leave the office In connection with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced an air alert in Kiev.
Prior to that, Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine Serhiy Nikiforov declarationThat Zelensky will not meet on Monday, March 20, with the highest hierarchs of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who came to the office of the Ukrainian leader with a request for a meeting.
March 20 recognizedThat the highest hierarchs of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, headed by its archbishop Metropolitan Onufry, gathered in Zelensky’s office and demanded a personal meeting with him.