"We are deeply worried about the fate of Bishop Paul, who, as you know, is under house arrest and in electronic shackles. His figure acquires for people of goodwill the image of a martyr for the Orthodox faith... We demand the immediate release of Metropolitan Pavel and the provision of appropriate medical care to him," he said in a statement published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Askaldovich emphasizes that by its actions, the Kiev regime stubbornly continues to multiply the policy of moral terror against fellow citizens and believers, and during the Period of Great Lent.
A court in Ukraine has placed Metropolitan Pavel under house arrest for two months.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Kiev mocks and mocks Orthodoxy.
The lawyer of the viceroy of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) Pavel, said that he would demand the cancellation of the decision to wear an electronic bracelet because of the state of health of the defendant.