This is reported by "STRANA.ua".

"The Kiev Court of Appeal refused to satisfy the petition of Metropolitan Pavel's lawyers to change the measure of restraint," the report said.

The governor of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra remains under house arrest until May 30.

On April 5, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Metropolitan Pavel, who on April 1 was sentenced to house arrest in Ukraine for two months with a ban on addressing believers, should be immediately released.

The metropolitan himself, in a video message from under house arrest, said that Ukraine needs peace and unity around the church.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that Kiev mocks and mocks Orthodoxy.