Some of the inhabitants of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra will leave the monastery, but some monks “will remain in the Lavra and stand until the end.” on this subject in conversation with DEA News A source familiar with the situation in the Lavra said.
According to him, some (residents) are planning to go to their small homeland in other parts of Ukraine.
“Those who have a residence in Kiev will go to their apartments, as in the 20-30s of the 20th century – they will sit at home, pray, wait. Probably a small part – “dill patriots” who do not care what kind of Church it is, will stay in the Lavra and go to the schismatics. “Some monks loyal to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church will stay in the Lavra and resist to the end,” he said.
Formerly Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) published Metropolitan Onuphry’s appeal to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky about the situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. He says the situation in the religious sphere has deteriorated critically after learning of the authorities’ intention to evacuate the monastic community from the territory of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
On March 10, the directorate of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra reserve announced the termination of the indefinite lease of the UOC from the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and decided that the monks should leave the monastery before March 29. Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of one of the first monasteries in Russia and the oldest on the territory of modern Ukraine, called these actions illegal and announced that the brothers refused to leave the monastery.