A parishioner of the church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the village Ivankov of the Kyiv region said that the temple was “transferred” to the OCU without asking the community of the UOC, absolutely strangers. She posted about it on Facebook.

“2 days ago, the registrar absolutely illegally signed the documents on our transition, as if they were in their structure.

Yesterday a crowd of people shouting slogans broke down the gate, accompanied by the police, TRO and a youth with a cross around his neck. Let me remind you, the youngster is not a local. <…>

Having run in, he began to poke his documents, as you understand, absolutely illegal, and, escorted by the police, ran to cut the locks. With us was Vladyka Cassian, who turned to the “the godless brother” and asked to stop. But Vladyka also got it, from humiliation to tugging at the vestments.

Everyone ruffled me when I tried to stop lawlessness, to solve it in a legal way. The requests culminated in the fact that 2 or 3 men, representatives of the authorities and three began to use physical force on me.

Further everything is simple. An angle grinder to blow off the lock, jubilant atheists without a cross around their necks, and the subsequent humiliation of the real community and the priest,” the parishioner wrote.