. >> reporter: bishop kliment is the spokesman for the moscow patriarchate. >> ( translated ): this slander and informational filth has become a real propaganda war against our church, that has escalated to the point where it destabilizes ukraine. >> reporter: kliment says that although his church is affiliated with russia, it makes its own decisions. >> ( translated ): we have both a political and military conflict in ukraine and some religious groups are using this to play some kind of card. factually what is happening is a raider seizure. they are unconstitutionally taking away the rights of people. they are the opening a second front inside of ukraine. >> ( translated ): the moscow patriarchate reacts as if we are invading its churches. we are not invading, we are accepting parishes that want to switch. >> reporter: one of the more contentious turnovers, which bishop kliment complained about to the ukrainian parliament, was in the village of khodosy. >> ( translated ): putin stop! no go to ukraine! >> reporter: there was a vote here too, but the moscow patriarchate priest and his follow