On July 28, 2022, in the city of Skvyra, Kyiv region, at a meeting at a music school, 300 local residents decided to transfer the community of the Assumption Parish of the UOC “to the bosom of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” the city council reported on its Facebook page.
Archpriest Andrei Khomyshak, rector of the UOC church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, told the UOJ that the organizers of the meeting on the part of the city authorities called it “gatherings of the religious community of the Assumption Parish,” but in fact, parishioners of churches of other faiths and non-religious citizens in general voted for the decision.
On the fact of falsification of documents, the community appealed to the National Police and the regional military administration. The rector of the temple handed over a letter to the organizers of the gathering stating that they were illegal, since people who had nothing to do with the religious community took part in them.
However, neither the Skvyrsky City Council, which calls the community of its fellow citizens the “Moscow Church”, nor Dumenko’s supporters stopped this. 2 days after the illegal collections, the clerics of the OCU temple in honor of St. Nicholas held a prayer service in front of the Assumption Church of the UOC and even announced a fundraiser for its completion.
Supporters of the OCU plan to hold a new “worship” near the Assumption Church of the UOC on August 7.
