a document, uh, confirming your identity by a priest of the canonical church, access to the beer-pechersk lavraas closed by another 1 january zelensky's regime decided to strengthen the split in violation of the constitution of ukraine, the authorities of this country intend to ban the canonical. orthodox church in the patriarch kirill of moscow and all russia has already conducted searches of the sbu in the lavra and called for prayers for believers and priests who are being expelled from the kiev-pechersk lavra. we believe that all these diabolical temptations will recede and someday after some time has passed. many will be ironic. or maybe just remembering with a smile these miserable attempts to destroy the canonical orthodox church in ukraine, we will pray for our brothers and sisters on ukrainian soil. we will pray for the country, our russian power, for the authorities, for host. we will pray for our relatives and friends tv channels under the control of the zelensky service. raskolnikov lavrik, where from time immemorial the canonical orthodox church of ukraine was located, is called a

i also want to remind the situation around the pechersk lavra beer which a dozen mariks were on an indefinite lease from the moscow patriarchate. actually , on december 31, 2022, their lease of the upper lavra ended. they granted this lease back in 2016, and the ministry of culture itself decided not to extend this lease of the upper lavra, which includes the refectory church and the assumption cathedral e for the moscow to the patriarchate for next year, and today the orthodox church of ukraine submitted an application to hold a church service on christmas day in the assumption cathedral actually it was considered by the ministry of culture, it agreed and gave the right to a one-time service for the ptzu, however, metropolitan epiphanius hopes that such services in the assumption cathedral will be able to be held many more times, but while this issue is being discussed belongs to the moscow patriarchate , because it was given as an indefinite lease back in 2011 by the representatives of the government of mykola azarov, who is currently hiding from ukrainian justice in the russian federation.