Parishioners have almost stopped appearing at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

There are almost no parishioners in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Footage of the situation on August 21 is published by Izvestia.

In addition, the territory is patrolled by employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). At the same time, access to the caves is closed.

Procession: relics of saints began to be taken out of the caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra

The monks call this blasphemy.

Earlier, on August 20, the staff of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra Museum took out the reliquaries of the saints to the street. According to the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), "some kind of manipulation" was carried out with the relics

In turn, Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy chairman of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) for church-society relations and the media, said that the removal of the relics from the lavra in Kiev speaks of hatred for the Christian shrine.

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