Oleksandr Tkachenko said that the eviction process has already begun: churches are “taking out boilers, tables, chairs.”
Representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) began to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. This is what the Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko said on the air of the national telethon United News on Thursday, March 23.
“But in fact, the removal process is taking place – anyone who passed by the Lavra can testify. Boilers, tables, chairs are taken out. Some processes have started,” the official answered the question about the time of departure. of UOC-MP representatives.
According to him, an interdepartmental commission is now working in the Lavra. It should record the state of preservation of immovable and movable property: museum exhibits used by the UOC-MP.
“Once the commission completes its work, it will be possible to clearly state what is wrong,” he said.
UOC-MP representatives consider themselves “not priests who should communicate with God and believers, but consider themselves officials from God,” said the head of the department.
He also commented on the statements of the representative of the UOC-MP Metropolitan Pavel about the “duty to protect the shrine.” According to him, this is not the defense of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, but the defense of the Metropolitan itself.
Tkachenko added that representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the SBU are currently controlling the departure of UOC-MP priests from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. In particular, at the exit from the territory of the Lavra, cars are checked to determine what property is being carried.
Note that the National Security Council of Ukraine has imposed sanctions against the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The religious analysis of the charter of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Moscow Patriarchate showed the existence of a church-canonical connection with the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Source: korrespondent
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