The State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom published a document stating that every bishop of the UOC must make sure that the parishes of the diocese entrusted to him do not commemorate Patriarch Kirill, do not distribute pro-Kremlin literature and do not reproduce the narratives of the “Russian world”.

The department also urged to check the content of sermons and chants and make sure that it does not hurt people’s feelings in the context of Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine and the ongoing aggression since 2014.

“No one will do this for you, and this is an important exam with far-reaching consequences,” writes the GESS.