The Russian Foreign Ministry called the silence of the UN and the OSCE on the request for Kiev's measures against the UOC indicative

The Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that in March Lavrov called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and OSCE Chairman Buyar Osmani to demand that Kiev stop arbitrariness against the UOC and prevent the forced eviction of the brotherhood of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

"The lack of a decisive reaction from the addressees from among the heads of international organizations is very indicative," the ministry stressed.

The Security Service of Ukraine reported that since 2022, 61 criminal cases have been initiated against the clergy of the canonical UOC.

Almost 250 representatives of the UOC were banned from entering the country.

The head of the synodal department of the Moscow Patriarchate for relations between the Church and society and the media, Vladimir Legoyda, called the reaction of the world community to the events in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra inadequate.