The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada supported the draft law on the banning of the UOC MP

The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) on humanitarian and information policy recommended the adoption of a draft law prohibiting the activity of religious organizations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine.

The MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported this.

"The Moscow Patriarchate will finally be banned in Ukraine! 🚫⛪️ The Humanitarian Policy Committee at its meeting has just recommended the relevant bill," the MP noted.

The MP Mykola Knyazhytskyi explained that the committee supported three draft laws — on banning the Russian Orthodox Church and its subordinate structures; the request of the Verkhovna Rada to the Cabinet of Ministers to transfer the Pochaiv Assumption Lavra and the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) for free use; simplifying the transition from the UOC MP to the OCU.

• On December 1, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law banning the activities of religious organizations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine.
• At the end of November, the SSU conducted a series of searches in churches, monasteries and laurels of the UOC MP, in particular in Kyiv-Pecherska. After the presidentʼs statement, law enforcement officers began actively conducting a series of searches across the country. Servants of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate are being checked for pro-Russian activities and connections with the occupiers.