The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has uncovered new evidence of criminal activity by the head of the Cherkasy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), who continued to incite religious hatred publicly while under house arrest.
After the start of the full-scale invasion, there have been people who behaved strangely at services and meetings on the monastery's grounds, Acting Abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Archimandrite Abraham said in an interview with RFE/RL project “Skhemy” on Sept. 2.
A novice of the Pochaiv Lavra of Ukraine (UOC-MP, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate), who justified Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment.
After the Moscow-backed church at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was given an eviction notice, the Ukrainian government is looking into similar action at the Pochaiv Monastery.