On 1 April 2023, at around 7:30 a.m., officers of the SBU (the Security Service of Ukraine) served a notification of suspicion to Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshhorod and Chornobyl, the Father Superior of the Kyiv Caves Lavra. The Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church informs about it with reference to lavra.ua.
Metropolitan Pavel is charged with the violation of citizens’ equality based on their race, nationality, religious beliefs, disability and other grounds (article 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). It concerns statements about the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” and the Constantinople Patriarchate made by him in his video address “We ask for justice for our Church”.
Article 436-2: Justification, recognition as rightful, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants – is also incriminated to him. To that Vladyka Pavel replied in this way: “I condemned, condemn and will be condemning any attacks upon our state, and it is not justified in any case what Russia has done, what Putin has done. I have told you, I have been and will be standing up for the protection of my Motherland.”
Presently searches are being conducted in the house of the Father Superior of the Kyiv Caves Lavra.
He has been summoned for questioning at 12 p.m. After that the issue regarding the enforcement of measures of constraint will be decided on.
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