Based on the evidence collected by the SSU, the court convicted another metropolitan of moscow patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church - head of Tulchyn diocese in Vinnytsia region, who publicly justified russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine.
Recently, metropolitan Pavlo (Petro Lebid) of the moscow patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC-MP) has been released from custody on bail of UAH 33.3 mln, as provided for by the preliminary decision of Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv.
The SSU is systemically combating russian intelligence services and criminals in Ukraine’s religious environment. Since russia launched its full-scale aggression, the SSU has initiated 68 criminal proceedings against representatives of moscow patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC-MP), including 14 metropolitans.
The SSU and the Prosecutor General's Office have collected evidence against the head of the russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Gundyaev (aka Kirill), who facilitates russia's armed aggression and denies the war crimes of the occupiers.
The SSU has exposed unlawful actions of a rector of a church in Vinnytsia diocese of moscow patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church: the cleric denied russia’s armed aggression and justified temporary occupation of part of Ukraine.
Based on the evidence collected by the SSU, the rector of a temple of Vinnytsia diocese of moscow patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been convicted to a prison term.
The SSU has collected evidence against collaborator Nazar Shkil, a subdeacon of the so-called ‘Kherson diocese of the russian orthodox church’ in the temporarily occupied part of the region.
The SSU has documented the unlawful activity of Serhii Gutenko, a rector of a church of moscow patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the temporarily occupied Luhansk.
The SSU has collected evidence of anti-Ukrainian activities of a cleric of Ovrutsk-Korosten diocese of moscow patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Zhytomyr oblast.
Based on the evidence collected by the SSU, the former rector of Kherson Diocese Cathedral, Oleksiy, who is hiding in Crimea, has been convicted in absentia to 15 years in prison for high treason. The temple belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of moscow patriarchate (UOC-MP).
The SSU has collected a large evidence base on four high-ranking russian clerics who spread the kremlin regime in the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine.
The SSU has collected substantiated evidence of the involvement of the former abbot of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Pavlo (Petro Lebid) in inciting religious hatred, justifying and denying russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine.