Lawyer: a court in Crimea fined a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

The Belogorsky District Court of Crimea fined a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Father Damian, under the article on violations in the implementation of missionary activities (part 4 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this on his Facebook page Serhiy Zayats, a Ukrainian human rights activist , wrote .

The priest was fined 15,000 rubles. On August 8, the security forces disrupted the service in the monastery church and drew up protocols. According to Andrei Shchekun, editor-in-chief of Krymskaya Svetlitsa, they were employees of the Center for Combating Extremism. Later, Damian's father was summoned to court.

• At the end of 2018, the unrecognized Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church announced their unification into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). In 2019, her autocephaly Bartholomew, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, and several other churches recognized . Because of this, the Russian Orthodox Church stopped Eucharistic communion with them.
• In 2019, the community of the Cathedral of Saints Vladimir and Olga of the OCU in Simferopol was deprived of the church .