The monks of the UOC were ordered to leave the buildings of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra until March 29

This was reported on the website of the monastery with reference to the leadership of the National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra".

“Given the conclusions of the Interdepartmental Working Group and the letter from the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine ... the reserve warns of the termination of the contract from March 29,” the statement says.

Earlier, the special envoy of the Russian Foreign Minister for cooperation in the field of ensuring the right to freedom of religion, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Gennady Askaldovich said that Kiev and the West are trying to separate Russians and Ukrainians on the basis of religion.

According to the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, the Ukrainian side has long been at war with the Russian Orthodox Church and the arrival of the SBU in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is a link in the chain of such actions by Kyiv.