In the occupied regions of Ukraine, the number of religious communities, independent of the Moscow Patriarchate, decreased by five times
After Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions, the number of religious communities in these territories was more than doubled - out of 1967 organizations, only 902 remained, the new newspaper Europe found out. This is partly due to the outflow of the population and destruction. But if the fighting were the only factor, the number of communities of different faiths would decrease evenly, but this did not happen: first of all, those who did not obey the Moscow Patriarchate suffered.