The foreign publication The Duran published an article in which it condemned the government’s policy towards the UOC.

The author of the article “Zelensky destroys the spiritual foundations of Ukrainian society, leading it to degradation” Francis Moore paid special attention to the fact that Zelensky’s government at the end of 2022 “began to treat one of the main shrines of the parishioners of the UOC – the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.”

“The UN Human Rights Office only a few months later drew attention to discrimination against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Persecution, criminal cases against priests, searches in churches, eviction from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra are reflected in the latest report of the organization. And although the UN only expressed the traditional “concern”, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry immediately accused international observers of bias, and also asked the UN to refrain from making assessments. That is, in fact, turn a blind eye to the repressions against the UOC,” the publication says.