The Ukrainian police did not allow the car with an icon in the trunk to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra region. This was reported by the Ukrainian edition of “Observer”.
It was noted that after the icon was returned to the monastery, the carriage was allowed to go.
Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, adviser to the Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russian Kirill, at a press conference on the situation around the Lavra, said that pickup trucks – “paddy wagons” – were parked near the walls of the monastery and on its grounds. The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church said that Moscow continues to monitor developments. DEA News.
The situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra escalated after the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine informed the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the unilateral termination of the monastery’s lease, the monks were asked to leave the Lavra on March 29. Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said the monks can stay in the Lavra provided they are transferred to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Earlier, the RT channel reported that the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. gone Police armed with machine guns.