Clashes at the Lavra of the Caves in Kiev

Clashes broke out today outside the monastery Caves Lavra in Kiev, where the monks of the monastery defied the Ukrainian authorities’ order to leave him.

Kyiv Order of the monks of the Lavra From the caves to the evacuation of the monastery facilities up March 29th.

The Ukrainian government decided to expel non-autologous brain Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) From the Lavra of the Caves Monastery, for violation of his contractual obligations. The Ukrainian state’s contract with that part of the Orthodox Church still under the Moscow Patriarchate, concluded in 2013, was terminated yesterday, March 29, according to a letter from the government body that runs the site, which has also since become a museum. The year is 1920. This decision followed a decree issued by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in December 2022, in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky has repeatedly complained that the University of Oklahoma is full “Spies”.

Ukraine is important to the Russian Orthodox Church, as some of its major monasteries are located there. However, at the end of May 2022, her wing Ukrainian Orthodox Church The Moscow Patriarchate announced that it had severed relations with Russia due to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. In May 2019, amid diplomatic tensions, a part of the Ukrainian Church represented by the Kyiv Patriarchate cut ties with Moscow and declared its allegiance to the Ecumenical Patriarch. Bartholomew.

Lavra of the Caves is located in the southern part of the Ukrainian capital. It was built in the middle of the eleventh century and is considered the oldest monastery in Ukraine. Since 1990 it has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Tensions have risen over the presence of priests at the monastery since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Hours after the midnight eviction deadline passed Wednesday, members of the University of Oklahoma denied entry to representatives of a state panel who wanted to search buildings at the sprawling, gold-domed convent complex.

A little later, clashes broke out, in which the journalist participated Reuters She was beaten and shoved by an unknown man, while another journalist was pushed away by a clergyman when she tried to approach him. No one is hurt.

Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko He later condemned the “brutal” treatment of the committee members. He said in a statement that the Ukrainian government had lodged a complaint with the police and that efforts to search the premises would continue on Friday.

A week ago, the abbot of the Lavra of the Caves announced that the monks would not leave the monastery, as they were ordered, calling on the believers to come to their defense. According to him, the expulsion is “worse” than the Soviet crackdown on the clergy in 1917, 1937 and 1960, when tens of thousands of Orthodox priests were sent to the gulag or executed. The Ukrainian metropolitan said at the time: “This is proof that there are no human rights, only violence, the devil exists.” “We will not throw stones, we will only pray. I cannot guarantee security because the instigators will come,” he stressed.

In November, Ukraine’s counterintelligence service searched the monastery, which is also the residence of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who it described as suspected of having ties to Russia.

The Moscow Patriarchate responded strongly to the decision to expel the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the monastery, a decision in which it considered that “the height of guilt” in Ukraine.

Referring to the friction within the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew said a week ago that the Russian Orthodox Church bears a share of responsibility for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the crimes committed and the abduction of children.

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