On the evening of November 5, 2022, in Demyantsy (Borispol diocese), 15 men in tracksuits arrived at the Exaltation of the Cross Church of the UOC and installed new locks, and the head of the village council, Sergei Kuzmenko, announced to believers that now the temple belongs to the OCU. The UOJ was informed about this by the deacon of the church Volodymyr Gayduchok.
On the morning of the next day, November 6, the “priest” of the OCU arrived and held a “worship”, which was attended by the head of the Demyantsevsky village council Kuzmenko, the mayor of Pereyaslav Vyacheslav Saulko, who participated in the attempt to capture the Borisoglebsky church in Pereyaslav.
“Kuzmenko and Saulko are two local bandits, everyone here knows them,” said the residents of Demyantsev. According to them, under the leadership of this couple and their “detachment”, the UOC churches are being seized throughout the region, and thus they have already “transferred to the OCU” about 30 churches.