On July 25, a meeting was held between the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, Viktor Yelensky, and the Primate of the UOC, Metropolitan Onufry of Kyiv and All Ukraine. This is reported by the SSEFC website.

“The religious situation in the country, issues of church life in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, targeted terrorist attacks by Russian aggressors against civilian infrastructure and the civilian population were discussed,” the message says.

The head of the SSEFC emphasized that “a complete and unconditional break of the UOC with the Russian church is not only a request of the state and society, but also of believers and clergy of the UOC.”