Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky Kliment gave an interview to the Telegraph website, in which, in particular, he answered a question about the possibility of a dialogue with the OCU. This was reported by the Information and Educational Department of the UOC.

“There should be such a dialogue. Instead, we recently heard from the lips of the head of the OCU that they will not conduct any dialogue with the UOC. Moreover, they will perform some kind of” filtering “if someone wants to go to them,” he said. lord.

According to him, “The OCU is increasingly declaring that they do not need this dialogue. Today they feel that they can take away, seize by force, they can count on the fact that the local authorities will make the most absurd decisions from the point of view of the law to please them, and this will be legitimized by the will of the crowd. Perhaps the OCU does not need dialogue yet, because it has a powerful administrative resource on its side. However, in this behavior there is not even a hint of something ecclesiastical. And people feel it.”

Metropolitan Kliment stressed that “OCU churches are very often empty even in cities. And the churches of our church, for example, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, are full, although they are not allowed to go there, they create various obstacles.”