On June 25, 2023, there was a raider and illegal seizure of the lower church in honor of Archangel Michael of the UOC in the village of Belogorodka, Kyiv region. OCU activists came to the temple at about six in the morning with a grinder and a crowbar. Everything happened under the protectorate of the police and the terrorist defense, according to the channel “Pershyi Kozatskyi”.

Some believers of the UOC who came to defend their shrine were detained by the police. But law enforcement agencies did not touch the raiders of the OCU.

The rector of the temple, Archpriest Vyacheslav Lazorik, had just returned from Kherson, where he helped the victims of the explosion of the Kakhovka dam.

After several hours of confrontation between the parishioners of the church and supporters of the OCU, it was decided to serve the Liturgy in the unfinished church.

“The parishioners and clergy of the temple, who built the shrine with their own hands, are now not allowed into the territory of their own church. The police, who literally covered up the raider seizure of the church, said that Orthodox Christians “can wait for the court’s decision in another place,” the message says. .

“Of course, no charges were brought against OCU activists and their cleric Vasily Chuprovsky for attacks on parishioners. But those who stood up for their brothers and sisters are charged with an administrative offense,” the message added.