Scuffles at Kyiv monastery as Church accused of Russia ties resists eviction

Scuffles at Kyiv monastery as Church accused of Russia ties resists eviction

Scuffles broke out outside a Kyiv monastery on Thursday after a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church that the government says has ties with Russia defied an eviction order.

Church accused of Russia ties resists Kyiv monastery eviction

Members of the UOC at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery refused entry to gov’t commission representatives.

‘Pro-Russian’ church in Kyiv resists eviction

Members of church given midnight deadline to leave the monastery

Scuffles at Kyiv monastery as Church accused of Moscow ties resists eviction

KYIV, March 30 — Scuffles broke out outside a Kyiv monastery today after a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church accused by the government of having ties with Russia defied an eviction order. Tensions over the presence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) at the 980-year-old Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery have risen since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year. Hours after a deadline to leave the monastery passed at midnight on We…

Ukraine war: Scuffles at Kyiv monastery as Church accused of Moscow ties resists eviction

KYIV, March 30 (Reuters) - Scuffles broke out outside a Kyiv monastery on Thursday after a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church accused by the government of having ties with Russia defied an eviction order.

Scuffles at Kyiv monastery as Church accused of Russia ties resists eviction

Scuffles broke out outside a Kyiv monastery on Thursday after a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church that the government says has ties with Russia defied an eviction order.