The Lavra suggested that Ministry of Culture representatives wait until the end of martial law.

The Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra has denied the Ministry of Culture permission to conduct video filming on the monastery grounds. The corresponding document was published on the monastery’s Telegram channel.
On February 3, 2025, the Ministry of Culture, through the Deputy Director of the Kremenets-Pochaiv Reserve, I. Derevinsky, requested that the Lavra administration grant access to a filming crew.
In a response letter dated February 4, Metropolitan Volodymyr of Pochaiv and the monastery brethren refused the request, citing that the Lavra is a place of mass gatherings, and filming there during wartime is prohibited by law.
The Lavra referred to the decision of the Defense Council of Ternopil Region from March 31, 2022, which prohibits “photo and video recording in the region of checkpoints, military and critical infrastructure sites, buildings of state and executive authorities, local government bodies, enterprises, institutions, and organizations authorized to perform relevant functions, roads where they are located, as well as places of mass gatherings.”

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◾️On February 2 and 3, in Triskini village, Rivne region, the first services were held in the newly built UOC church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy and Consolation".

The new shrine was built by Orthodox Christians, who were taken away the St. Nicholas Church by OCU raiders.

The UOC parish underwent many difficult trials. The OCU clerics decided to seize the church back in 2023.

The criminals incited hatred against Christians, staged provocations, put pressure on believers at work. They even threatened soldiers from the church parish.

Due to several attempts of storming and documents falsification, OCU raiders managed to take away the shrine.

The UOC parishioners were forced to pray in an adapted room. But the Christians did not give up.

They decided to build a new church. In 6 months, a new beautiful church appeared in Triskiny.

On February 2, the faithful moved from the hut to their new sanctuary in a solemn procession, after which they served the first All-Night Vigil there.

On February 3, on the day of veneration of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Joy and Consolation", the first Liturgy was celebrated in the new church.

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◾️On February 2, parishioners of the UOC St. Paraskev Church in the village of Ust-Putyl in Bukovina decided to convene a meeting of their religious community.

Taking into account the next wave of the OCU raiders activity, Orthodox Christians did not want any of the thieves to have the desire to start falsifying documents and substituting the will of the parish.

The religious community unanimously stated that it would remain in the bosom of the UOC.

"We will remain in the UOC, which has existed since ancient times. To which our grandfathers and great-grandfathers went.
In which we were baptized and married. In which our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were buried.
We remain forever in the Holy Catholic Canonical Orthodox Church!

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