"It seems to me that there was a unique chance, when it was possible to solve everything very quickly and painlessly, during the first three or six months of the war. Back then, you could just physically clean up a lot of pro-Russian people, but today it's a little more complicated. But then again, a little more complicated doesn't mean impossible. And today we must go through this path with legal motivation and a fairly tough one. I emphasize once again: there should be only Ukrainian canonical church in Ukraine, "RIA Novosti quoted Podolyak as saying. His statement was published on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian "Channel 24".
Earlier, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that he insists on the eviction of the monks of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, but promises not to use force during their expulsion.
The National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" obliged the monks of the canonical UOC to leave the buildings of the reserve until March 29.
Ministers of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra filed a lawsuit in the court of Ukraine with a demand to challenge the rights to the monastery.