< p _ngcontent-sc86="" class="news-annotation">Several thousand believers of the Moscow Patriarchate are walking towards Pochaev. Nobody controls them and they violate the ban in the Ternopil region.
The video of the procession was published online, the local authorities confirmed the movement of people. The UOC-MP, which rents the Pochaev Assumption Lavra, did not take responsibility for the move.
Believers of the Moscow Patriarchate, despite the ban, go to Pochaev
This is an unorganized column of people, among them there is no clearly defined person who officially leads them. The police officers ensure public order and the safety of the people participating in the course, as well as their compliance with the rules of the road, the police said.
Moreover, the press service of the Ternopil region stated that they had accepted restrictions on holding such events in the region, but the procession participants did not pay attention to this. The police explained:
- “this is an unorganized column of people, among them there is no clearly defined person who officially leads them;
- the police ensure public order and the safety of the people participating in the course , as well as their compliance with the rules of the road;
- there was tension, it is clear what the reason was, but there were no such violations that people were detained for something.
In the column, the believers of the UOC-MP go to Pochaiv: watch the video
Law enforcement officers recalled that the Council of Defense of the Ternopil region decided that during the performance of religious rites, organized movement on foot or by road, in groups, columns or processions should be avoided.
They move unorganized, people simply ignore all the calls of the police to adhere to the decision and continue to go in the direction of Pochaev,” the police explained.
Local residents sometimes did not allow believers to go through their settlements. According to terminovo, people were not allowed into the urban-type settlement of Vyshnevets in the Ternopil region.
There are 5,000 people in the convoy
Head of the Ternopil OVA Volodymyr Trush said that 5,000 people are moving in the convoy . According to Trush, on August 24, instead of focusing on other work, “these people were being hunted through the fields.”
They ran to break through. This is an uncontrollable mass,” said Vladimir Trush.
The head of the UVA added that Metropolitan Onufry, the head of the UOC-MP, said that he did not give his blessing to this procession. Even the Khmelnytsky lord refused to take responsibility for the event.
That is why Vladimir Trush announced the meeting of the regional council on August 26. It is there that the decision on the procession will be made.
The latest news about the Moscow Patriarchate Church
- In May 2022, at the council of the UOC-MP, it was decided that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate was disconnected from the Russian Orthodox churches . They were supposed to maintain only “spiritual communion”.
- After that, the head of the OCU, Metropolitan Epifaniy, is convinced that this is just an imitation of independence and independence.
- And already on August 22, Onufry, rector of the WTO of the Moscow Patriarchate, met with Russian captured invaders. He stated that he was “praying for all the people on the battlefield” and did not say a word about Russian aggression. He gave them such a prayer book, an icon and a chocolate bar.
