The bill is already in the Council: in Ukraine can ban the UOC -MP because of connection with Russia

According to him, the Bill No. 8371 "On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Activity of Religious Organizations in Ukraine" is aimed at "ensuring spiritual independence, preventing split in society on religious grounds, facilitating the consolidation of Ukrainian society and protecting national interests. " As it is noted, if the relevant law is adopted, in Ukraine the activities of churches whose management center is in the aggressor country will be impossible.

The website of the Verkhovna Rada of the document text has not yet been published. However, it is stated that the draft law is the prime minister of the country Denis Shmigal. On December 1, the leadership of Ukraine at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council considered the risks of activity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the territory of the state. As a result, a decision was made to ban Russian churches in Ukraine and affiliate organizations.

On the same day, Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree that the NSDC entered into force. The document, in turn, obliged the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to prepare the relevant bill on the ban on the country of churches that are being taken in the Russian Federation. Later, on December 27, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine obliged the UOC (MP) to change its name so that it indicates the church's belonging to Russia.

However, the UOC refused to renam, arguing that the religious center of the church is in Kiev, not in Moscow. According to the head of the legal department of Archpriest Alexander Bakhov, any attempts to forcibly rename the church will increase cases of violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion in Ukraine.

We will remind, in the beginning of January this year the Security Service of Ukraine completed counterintelligence measures in the territory of the UOC objects (MP) in several regions of the country, during which libraries with pro -Russian literature, agitation materials of prohibited political forces and warehouses with property of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were discovered.