On Tuesday, November 3, Metropolitan Klyment of Simferopol and Crimea received a package of documents from the occupants demanding to dismantle the wooden church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Yevpatoria by November 3, 2020 and pay a fine of 50,000 rubles. This was reported by the press service of the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the ARC.
“The Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea condemns the violations of the occupying state of the Russian Federation against the Crimean diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and its believers. The decision of the so-called court and further demands to dismantle the "Burning Bush" church in Yevpatoria are aimed at ousting the Ukrainian Church from the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula. Russia wants Crimea to have no Ukrainian Church, an important center of unity of Ukrainians. The Mission will take all possible means and actions to protect the Ukrainian Church: information on systemic violations of the right to religious freedom and encroachments on the property of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea communicates with the diplomatic corps and international organizations, the facts of violations were collected and submitted for inclusion in the annual Resolution of the UN General Assembly on Crimea”,- said the permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Anton Korinevych.
We remind that on July 23, the occupants handed over to the Metropolitan of the Crimean Diocese of the OCU Klyment a decree on the demolition of the church in Yevpatoria.