Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) inspect the facilities of the UOC (MP) in Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Lviv, Zhytomyr and Kherson regions.
- Holy Ascension Cathedral (Uzhhorod);
- Holy Intercession Church (Uzhhorod);
- St. John the Theologian Khreshchatyk Monastery (Chernivtsi district);
- Holy Assumption Menʼs Monastery (Chernivtsi district);
- Holy Assumption Menʼs Monastery (Rivne district);
- Womenʼs monastery in honor of the Iver icon of the Mother of God of the "Yusefin" tract (Sarny district);
- Sviatohirskyi Dormitionsky Zimnesky Stauropygny Convent (Zymne village, Volodymyrskyi district);
- Menʼs Monastery of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Elena (Kostyantynivka village, Mykolaiv district);
- Holy Spirit Cathedral (Romny);
- Archdeacon-Stephanivska Church (Romny);
- Holy Trinity Church (Lviv);
- Church of Reverend Amfilokhiy Pochaivskyi (Mostysk);
- Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God (Boryslav);
- Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ (Korosten);
- Holy Transfiguration Cathedral (Ovruch);
- Ovrutsk-Korosten diocese;
- St. Basilʼs Cathedral (Ovruch);
- St. Basilʼs Monastery (Ovruch);
- Church of the Icon of Kazan (Chornobayivka village).
Safety work is carried out in order to:
- prevent the use of cathedrals as centers of the "Russian peace";
- check data on the use of UOC premises for hiding citizens of the Russian Federation, storing prohibited items, etc.;
- protect the population from provocations and terrorist acts.
- 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 (Ukrainian Parliament) 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-Pechersk. After the presidentʼs statement, law enforcement officers began actively conducting searches throughout the country. Servants of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate are being checked for pro-Russian activities and connections with the occupiers.
- On December 2, the National Security and Defense Council introduced personal sanctions against ex-Deputy of Ukraine Vadym Novinsky, Vicar of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra of the UOC MP Petro Lebed and a number of other priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.