“In Lisichansk, Lugansk People’s Republic, SBU officers, together with the British special services, are preparing another fake,” Mizinev said.

According to him, for this purpose, representatives of Ukrainian and Western media arrived in the city in advance, who had previously carried out staged photo and video shooting in Bucha. 

Earlier, the chairman of the synodal department for relations between the church, society and the media of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda, said that the Russian Orthodox Church continues to record reports of preparations for provocations on Easter night in Ukraine.

He noted that believers are praying that such incidents do not occur.

Mizintsev also stressed that on the eve of Easter, Kyiv is preparing provocations to discredit the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.