A week after Archbishop Klyment was threatened with criminal prosecution if he did not demolish a Ukrainian Orthodox chapel in Yevpatoria, Russia’s Supreme Court has taken a decision which places in jeopardy the very existence of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in occupied Crimea.
On August 4, the Supreme Court refused to reconsider the decision to evict the congregation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) from the Cathedral of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha in Symferopol, which Russia has been trying to take over since its invasion and annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014.