On January 21, 2023, supporters of the OCU seized the Assumption Church of the UOC in the village of Tarasovka, Kyiv region. This is reported by the Telegram channel DOZOR on the “Pershiy Kozatskiy”.
“A group of armed representatives of the defense, led by local authorities, broke the locks and broke into the territory of the shrine. A parishioner of the temple, who was guarding the church, had his eyes filled with pepper spray and beaten,” the report says.
The raiders locked themselves in the temple and blocked the entrances. Parishioners of the Dormition Church began to gather on the spot.
“The representative of the OCU, who was present at this sacrilege, promised that this would be the case with every church in the Boyarsky district,” DOZOR reports.