Deputies of the Rivne Regional Council unanimously banned the activities of the UOC MP in the region.
The regional council infrormed about this on April 10.
This decision was supported by 55 electors out of 55 present in the hall. In addition, the deputies canceled a number of decisions on the registration of the charters of communities, which are currently part of the UOC MP, and also canceled the decision on the transfer of churches to them for use.
Before that, the right of the UOC MP to use land plots was terminated in Rivne. The deputies of the city council appealed to the government and the parliament with a request to ban the activities of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine.
- On April 4, the activities of the UOC MP were completely banned in Khmelnytskyi region.
- Since November 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine has conducted a series of searches in churches and other institutions of the Moscow Patriarchate. During the searches, they seized pro-Russian literature, "Novorossiia" flags, millions of cash, literature denying the existence of the Ukrainian people and their language, as well as Ukraineʼs right to statehood, and, on the contrary, emphasizing that it is an allegedly artificially created state.