A serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kiev region. File photoMOSCOW, April 14Armed people seized the Cathedral in honor of the Intercession of the Virgin of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the city of Boryspil, they made demands for the transfer of the parish to the jurisdiction of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine, according to the official website of the UOC on Thursday. Protection of the Mother of God in the city of Boryspil in the Kyiv region, about 20 armed men arrived who called themselves representatives of the «security sector». They, threatening the rector, Archpriest Alexander Bondar, demanded that the parish be transferred to the jurisdiction of the OCU,» the UOC website reports with reference to the cleric of the cathedral, Archpriest Dionysius Arendaruk. According to the priest, now the temple is closed. “Only the rector, I and Deacon Georgy Kish are now on the territory. Other clerics who are near the territory of the cathedral are not allowed here,” he added. incident time.
The Russian military was asked to provide security for Easter in UkraineRecently, nationalist attacks on churches, clergy and believers of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church have become more frequent in Ukraine. In addition, in March, a bill was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada to ban the activities of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, seize its real estate and other property. The Russian Orthodox Church said that the adoption of bills aimed at eliminating the UOC would exacerbate the crisis and provoke a new round of civil confrontation. The structure called the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was formed at the end of 2018 at the initiative of the ex-president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as opposed to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. In January 2019, the Patriarchate of Constantinople granted the OCU a «tomos of autocephaly». However, the OCU is in fact subordinate to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and most of the 15 local Orthodox churches in the world do not recognize it as canonical. world with the apocalypse
