The OCU “should be present in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, it will be.” The head of the OCU, Epiphany Dumenko, spoke about this in an interview with Suspilny.

“The Ukrainian Church should be present in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, it will be. This is also an irreversible process.

Now we see that there is a certain blocking of our presence on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra as a national shrine of the Ukrainian people … We ask you to provide us with one of the temples, which is not currently used by the Moscow Patriarchate, so that we, like the Ukrainian Church, are present in this great shrine,” said the head of the OCU.