and the village of butyn isn't alone. more than 30 other ukrainian communities have removed priests belonging to the moscow patriarchate. the process has sometimes been chaotic, even violent. in butyn, moscow patriarchate loyalists, like tamara kaznovetska and olga tsimbaluk, were locked out. >> ( translated ): someone told me "you are a bandit, you are a separatist, you pray in the language of the aggressor." i was just going to church; i pray to god, i don't pray to putin! we are not against ukraine. we are simply christians who cannot leave our 1,000-year-old faith. >> reporter: the kyiv patriarchate was started in 1992 by a breakaway priest named filaret, who felt ukrainians deserved a church separate from russia. last year it grabbed the political moment and not only joined protestors, but protected them. 18-year-old protester irina kocubinskaya was hurt in an attack by riot police and found refuge with others at a monastery run by the church. >> ( translated ): the church played not just an actual but also a symboli