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UOC lawyers secured additional police presence following repeated provocations and direct pressure on the legal team outside the courthouse.
Kyiv’s Pechersk Police Department has decided to deploy additional officers to the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal during the October 7, 2026 hearing in the case concerning the UOC Kyiv Metropolia. Archpriest Nikita Chekman, a lawyer for the UOC, published the police response to the legal team’s request.

According to the document, “in order to properly maintain public order and ensure the safety of citizens, on October 7, 2026, the Pechersk Police Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv plans to deploy additional police units to the area adjacent to the building of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal.”
The UOC lawyer contacted law enforcement over repeated provocations and pressure on the legal team outside the courthouse. In one previous incident, radicals blocked the lawyers inside a coffee shop and directly threatened them over their professional activities. The activists left only after police were called.

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🇺🇸Police pledge increased security at UOC Kyiv Metropolia court hearing

🇺🇦Поліція пообіцяла адвокатам УПЦ посилити охорону суду щодо Київської Митрополії

Metropolitan Anthony says the atmosphere of December 2018 described in the Phanar cleric’s report was the complete opposite of the love and freedom in which the Holy Spirit works.
In his UOJ article “Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Freedom,” UOC Chancellor Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovary analyzed a report submitted to Patriarch Bartholomew by a Constantinople cleric detailing the events surrounding the OCU’s creation in 2018.
The hierarch particularly emphasized the report’s value as a firsthand document: it was written for the head of the Phanar and therefore made no attempt to embellish what had happened. “People describe what they saw, and they describe it as they saw it,” he said.

Metropolitan Anthony stressed that, according to the report, the delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople came under intense pressure from the Ukrainian authorities. Fearing that they were being wiretapped, the exarchs resorted to communicating through handwritten notes because, as they put it, any discussion “would be disrupted due to constant surveillance.”
In the middle of the night, the head of the delegation was summoned to meet with the President, with the head of the security services also present in his office. The following day, the delegation was taken to the presidential palace under police escort, their phones were confiscated, they were searched, and they were told that they had been “detained and prohibited from leaving the country.” The author of the report admits that during those hours he found himself repeatedly and almost unconsciously writing down the prayer “Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos.”
“What do we see? Fear, suspicion, surveillance, pressure, sleepless nights, notes instead of spoken words. You will agree that this bears little resemblance to the Council of the Apostles as described in the Book of Acts,” the Metropolitan writes.
Metropolitan Anthony recalled the words of the Apostle John the Theologian: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.” 
“Where everyone involved is afraid of one another, there is neither love nor freedom, much less the Holy Spirit, Who blows where He wills, not where He is told to blow,” he noted.
Metropolitan Anthony also pointed out that, according to the report, suspicion and calculation extended even to those whom the Phanar was receiving into communion. The Patriarchate’s representative wrote of his “hidden calculation” – to secure the dissolution of the UOC-KP and UAOC before the “Unification Council,” leaving the Ukrainian side with “no way to retreat.” “Can the Church truly be built on such deceit?” Metropolitan Anthony asked.
According to him, something of this kind can be recognized administratively, diplomatically, or politically, “but such recognition does not impart the grace of the Holy Spirit. For grace is bestowed by God, not by directives from government authorities or security services.”

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🇺🇸UOC Chancellor on OCU formation report: pressure, fear and suspicion

🇺🇦Керуючий справами УПЦ про звіт зі створення ПЦУ: Тиск, страх і підозри

Metropolitan Anthony urged the Local Churches to read the report on the 2018 “council” and begin an open pan-Orthodox discussion.
In his UOJ article “Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Freedom,” UOC Chancellor Metropolitan Anthony appealed to all Local Churches – both those that have recognized the OCU and those that have not – to read the recently published report detailing how the structure was created.
“Read this document not as journalists or diplomats, but as Christians. Ask yourselves whether you recognize the work of the Spirit of God in what is described there,” the hierarch urged. If the answer is no, he said, this should mark the beginning of an open pan-Orthodox discussion, “which everyone is waiting for but which has yet to take place.”

Metropolitan Anthony drew particular attention to an episode in the report that, he said, concerns every Local Church. During a meeting with the Turkish ambassador, the latter told the Phanar delegation that there were five “principal” Churches, while the others, being “much younger,” had emerged from the jurisdiction of Constantinople and could not be regarded as equals. According to the report, the delegation “acknowledged that his words were correct.”
The Metropolitan recalled that warnings about the danger of so-called “Eastern papism” had been voiced not only in the UOC, but also in Serbia, Bulgaria, Antioch, Poland, the Czech Lands and Slovakia, and on Mount Athos. “They were told that this was an exaggeration. And now we read that representatives of Constantinople agree that there are no equals,” he noted, asking whether this was merely a “diplomatic” maneuver or the Phanar’s actual position.
Metropolitan Anthony stressed that all Local Churches are equal in honor not by agreement, but because the same Eucharist is celebrated in each of them and the same Christ abides in each. “If this begins to be called into question, then it is no longer the situation in Ukraine that is at stake, but the very structure of Orthodoxy itself,” he emphasized.
The hierarch also pointed out that the Patriarchate of Constantinople has so far remained silent about the publication, just as it has remained silent for the past eight years about church seizures, anti-Church legislation, and the persecution of UOC believers. “This silence speaks louder than any rebuttal,” the UOC Chancellor said.

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🇺🇸All Local Churches should learn how OCU was created, says UOC Chancellor

🇺🇦Усі Помісні Церкви мають дізнатися, як створювали ПЦУ, – керуючий справами УПЦ

Hieromonk Viktor (Denysov), a student at a university in Athens, said he was taken off his flight and brought to a TRC and is now serving with the 8th Special Operations Regiment.
Hieromonk Viktor (Denysov) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said he was detained by officers of the Khmelnytskyi Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) and subsequently mobilized. He wrote about the incident on Facebook.

According to the priest, on September 28, 2026, he was traveling to study at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he is a student. He said he had all the necessary documents with him. He was taken off his flight along with a delegation of priests studying at Greek universities.
The hieromonk said he was told that the purpose of his detention was to issue him a referral for a military medical examination. According to him, the reason given was that the medical commission’s decision recorded in the Reserve+ database did not meet certain standards.
He said the TRC officers did not identify themselves or show any documents, and no police officers were present. At the TRC, he said, the medical examination was arranged in about 10 minutes and he was declared fit for military service, although he maintains that he required a thorough medical examination.
The hieromonk said he was held at the TRC for nearly 24 hours, where officers shouted at and threatened him, while his phone was confiscated immediately. According to him, servicemen later gave him a phone to call the police at 102, but his rights were not protected.
The following day, he wrote, a recruiter helped arrange his assignment to the 8th Special Operations Regiment.
“Now I am not just a priest and a monk – I am also a serviceman,” Viktor (Denysov) wrote. He added: “I will not take up arms because the canons of the Church forbid me to do so.”
The hieromonk summed up what happened to him this way: “I was on my way to Greece to pursue my education. Instead, I ended up in the Ukrainian army.”

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🇺🇸TRC mobilizes 24-year-old UOC hieromonk on his way to study in Athens

🇺🇦ТЦК мобілізував 24-річного ієромонаха УПЦ по дорозі на навчання в Афіни

The next court hearing in the case seeking the dissolution of the UOC Kyiv Metropolia is scheduled for October 7.
UOC lawyers have filed requests with law enforcement agencies asking them to ensure the safety of the legal team and maintain public order during the next court hearing in the Kyiv Metropolia case. This was reported by UOC lawyer Archpriest Nikita Chekman on his Telegram channel.

On October 7, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., Kyiv’s Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal will hear DESS’s lawsuit seeking the dissolution of the UOC Kyiv Metropolia. In light of documented attempts to exert pressure on the lawyers and repeated interference with their work, UOC representatives asked law enforcement to keep the situation surrounding the proceedings under control and prevent provocations.
“In connection with provocations and obstruction of attorneys’ professional activities, representatives of the UOC Kyiv Metropolia filed the appropriate reports with law enforcement agencies, asking them to ensure public safety and order and to prevent pressure on the lawyers during the court proceedings,” Archpriest Nikita Chekman said.
Radicals had previously staged a provocation against UOC lawyers during court proceedings concerning the Upper Lavra. During a recess prompted by an air-raid alert, a group led by David Pshenichny, known for firing a gun during the seizure of the cathedral in Cherkasy, blocked the lawyers inside a coffee shop, shouting threats and attempting to physically intimidate them. The lawyers were forced to call the police.

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🇺🇸UOC lawyer urges police to prevent provocations at upcoming court hearing

🇺🇦Адвокат УПЦ закликав поліцію не допустити провокацій на майбутньому засіданні

Here is another detail adding to the profile of the provocateurs and terrorists who show up at courthouses to threaten lawyers and parishioners of the UOC.

⭕️ This screenshot captures the young terrorist Davyd Pshenychnyi wearing a very distinctive "Svastone" brand sweater.

Given the stylized swastika in the brand's logo, it is not hard to guess the origin of the name "Svastone."

⭕️ Inside the image on the sweater, the inscription "Sonne Mit Uns" ("The Sun is with us" in German) is visible.

⭕️ Surrounding the inscription is a stylized image of a Nazi symbol—the "Black Sun."

⭕️ Replacing "God" from the Nazi army slogan with "the sun" was done for a reason.
The brand itself positions itself as pagan. Its name indicates that it is a "Perun company."

❗️ To summarize: the ringleader of these young terrorists—who comes to stage provocations against the Church—wears Nazi and pagan symbols.

Furthermore, Pshenychnyi personally participated in the violent storming of the UOC's St. Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy for the OCU. This is what activists supporting the OCU and those who hate Orthodox Christians look like.

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🇺🇸A TERRORIST SUPPORTING THE OCU WEARS NAZI AND PAGAN SYMBOLISM

🇺🇦ТЕРОРИСТ ЗА ПЦУ НОСИТЬ НАЦИСТСЬКУ ТА ЯЗИЧНИЦЬКУ СИМВОЛІКУ

Poroshenko’s party European Solidarity described church policy as a matter of national sovereignty and said there can be no compromises in this area.
Following a meeting of its parliamentary faction, the Petro Poroshenko European Solidarity party stated that issues of religious faith and church policy cannot be subject to compromise or substantive agreements in international negotiations.

The party stressed that the concept of “Army. Language. Faith.” remains a fundamental pillar of Ukrainian statehood. According to its lawmakers, freedom of religion and the country’s spiritual sphere are matters of national sovereignty. “They cannot be used as bargaining chips in domestic politics, international negotiations, or any agreements with the aggressor state.”
Party representatives said that any peace agreements must not become a “capitulation of identity” and that after the war, Ukraine must remain a country “with its own Army, its own Language, its own Faith.” The faction also supported the state’s right to intervene and take action against organizations that the party describes as “controlled by the Kremlin.”

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🇺🇸Ukraine must have its own faith: Poroshenko's party lays out peace terms

🇺🇦Україна повинна мати свою віру: у «Євросолідарності» озвучили умови миру

On the feast day of the “She Who Is Quick to Hear” icon, the UOC Primate spoke of the Mother of God’s maternal care and urged the faithful to live by the laws of holiness and love.
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphryaddressed the faithful with an archpastoral message on the feast day of the wonderworking “She Who Is Quick to Hear” icon of the Mother of God, the UOC Information and Education Departmentreported. The Primate spoke about the special intercession of the Mother of God for humankind and called on the faithful to pray for peace and salvation.
Metropolitan Onuphry recalled that the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world for the salvation of mankind, assumed human nature, and sanctified it through His saving work. He referred to the Savior’s words from the Cross to the Mother of God and the Apostle John the Theologian: “Woman, behold thy son” and “Behold thy mother.” According to Metropolitan Onuphry, through these words the Lord entrusted the human race to the maternal care of the Mother of God.

“The Mother of God became the Mother not only of God incarnate, but of all people for whose sake God came to earth,” His Beatitude said. He described the holy wonderworking icons as one of the manifestations of the Mother of God’s love for humankind, through which she grants believers her grace-filled help. “In sorrows, illnesses, troubles, and the difficulties of earthly life, people turn to the Queen of heaven and earth, and she helps them,” the hierarch emphasized.
Metropolitan Onuphry also spoke about the “She Who Is Quick to Hear” icon, which is kept at a Bulgarian monastery on Mount Athos. Monks and pilgrims come to the shrine seeking help in their spiritual lives and earthly difficulties. “And today we pray to the Mother of God that she may bless our land with peace,” he added.
The Primate called on the faithful to build their lives according to the laws of Holy Scripture and Divine Revelation, which he described as “the laws of holiness and love.” He noted that even when people fall short, they should make every effort to love God and their fellow human beings, to forgive, and to do good works.
In conclusion, Metropolitan Onuphry expressed the hope that through her grace-filled protection, the Mother of God would help Christians live according to God’s commandments.

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🇺🇸Metropolitan Onuphry calls for prayers to Mother of God for peace in Ukraine

🇺🇦Митрополит Онуфрій закликав молитися Богородиці про мир в Україні

The farce orchestrated by OCU raiders inside the barbarically seized St. Michael’s Cathedral in Cherkasy continued today.

❗️ The perpetrators staged an ethnographic-style fashion show within the desecrated holy site.

⭕️ Activists of Dumenko and Yaremenko called the event as an "artistic and educational ethnographic program titled 'Ukrainian Wedding Traditions'."

Attendees were entertained with a program showcasing traditional wedding rituals and Ukrainian wedding attire.

⭕️ There is no limit to the schemes this criminal group will devise to "repurpose" the sacred space they stole from Orthodox Christians.

While UOC parishioners are forced to pray in basements, concerts and shows are being staged inside their cathedral.

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