“the authorities in Ukraine and Armenia were destroying the Church using Bolshevik methods

“the Kyiv authorities are persecuting the UOC even though the Church openly opposed the military invasion and declared its independence from Moscow

“government officials accuse the UOC of ties to Russia despite what he described as the actual facts

“The Ukrainian government has literally terminated the right of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to use the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, as it has done for almost a thousand years.