In a commentary to the Information and Education Department of the UOC, Priest Sergius, cleric of the Dormition Church in the village Mikhalcha of the Storozhynetsky district of the Chernivtsi region noted that despite the pressure from the supporters of the “OCU”, the religious community remained faithful to its Church.

“This year, on February 10, 2021, it was two years since we started all this (attempts of the representatives of the OCU to seize the UOC church), Our parish began a prayer stand to confirm our canonicity, that we are not betrayed their faith that we support our Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius.”

The priest said that the provocations of the schismatics continue, and noted that they had arranged another one the other day. “On February 20, 2021, this Saturday, when our Ukrainian state remembered the Day of Remembrance of the Heavenly Hundred, representatives of the OCU entered the church and began their service. And this despite the fact that we had an agreement that the representatives of the OCU are in their tent, and we are in the chapel where our people are on duty. They gathered not to pray for all those people who died, but to arrange a provocation,” he is convinced.