"I ask the parties to the conflict to respect religious places. People of any denomination who devote themselves to prayer are support for the people of God, "TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko said that the monks of the canonical UOC will be able to stay in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra if they go to the schismatics.
The National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" obliged the monks of the canonical UOC to leave the buildings of the reserve until March 29.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that the Kiev regime voiced a criminal logic: freedom of religion in Ukraine is held hostage by bandits.