The deputies of the Berezan City Council at an extraordinary meeting, which took place on October 31, 2022, decided to ban the UOC on the territory of the municipality. This was reported on the official page of the authority on Facebook.

According to the authorities, the activity of the UOC allegedly poses a threat to the national security of Ukraine and “is an undisguised form of a hybrid war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.”

The report says that the decision was made, given the “artificially created opposition of certain groups of the Ukrainian people and the split of Ukrainian society on religious grounds.”