He stressed that the temples of the Lavra are currently the property of the state.
Chekman considers this situation unfair, since it was possible to restore the church from the ruins thanks to the help of parishioners.
"A petition has been filed for the return of religious buildings and structures to the ownership of the religious community," TASS quoted the lawyer as saying.
Earlier, a court in Ukraine sentenced the viceroy of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel of the UOC, to house arrest for two months.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Kiev mocks and mocks Orthodoxy.
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.