The St. Nicholas Church in the village of Stoyanka, Kyiv region, which the local authorities, together with supporters of the OCU and the defense forces, took away from the community of the UOC, stands abandoned. A parishioner of the church, Maria Zaporozhets, wrote about this on her Facebook page.

“The local head and others like him, having decided that this was an opportune moment to promote himself to the authorities <…> gathered the village assembly <…> and a bunch of strangers and, having voted in this way, they took away the church and handed it over to the OCU, expelling all the parishioners practically into the street” Maria wrote.

The “Liturgy” is served once a month, and even  without people, “for those who voted in that church didn’t go, they don’t go, and they won’t go.” And true believers “found where to go to be in the real Church,” the message says.

Even on the eve of the patronal feast of St. Nicholas, there was no divine service, because the “priest” did not come.

“Here you have the whole truth from the first mouth about the “voluntary transfer to the OCU” and the further fate of such parishes,” Maria stated.