At its meeting on October 19, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted to ban the activities of religious organizations associated with the Russian Federation, in particular, the UOC MP.
The corresponding draft law (No. 8371) was supported by 267 people's representatives in the first reading. It is worth noting that 15 people's deputies spoke against it, two people's representatives abstained, and another 17 did not vote.
On December 1, 2022, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the National Security and Defense Council instructed the government to submit a draft law to the parliament on making it impossible for religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation to operate in Ukraine.
This decision was preceded by counterintelligence measures of the SBU in places of worship, on the territories of monasteries and dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. During these events, pro-Russian literature was discovered; documents confirming the presence of Russian citizenship in the leadership of a number of diocesan structures; anti-Ukrainian activities of ministers with appeals, in particular, to the "awakening of Mother Russia", justifying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
On January 19, 2023, the government draft law No. 8371 was registered in the parliament, which provides for the impossibility of the activities of religious organizations in Ukraine, the management center of which is located outside Ukraine in a state that carries out armed aggression against our state.
At the end of September, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ruslan Stefanchuk, stated that currently the parliament does not have the necessary number of votes to ban the UOC-MP.
Local councils, in turn, began to make decisions at their own level about banning the activities of the UOC MP in the territory of their communities.
In early October, people's deputy from the "Voice" parliamentary faction, Yulia Klymenko, said that the Verkhovna Rada had collected the required number of signatures for considering the issue of banning the activities of the UOC-MP. She noted that 226 signatures of people's deputies were collected for bringing the ban on the Moscow church into the voting hall.
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