Out of 150 Kyiv churches of the UOC-MP, about 40 were built without permission - Slidstvo.info
As reported by Ukraina Moloda, she notes that an illegally constructed church of the Moscow Patriarchate was demolished in Lviv.
"The footage of an excavator destroying a wooden church gives us hope that Russian priests in Kyiv will finally be asked the right questions. A couple of years ago, we were investigating.Info made the Project "Gold of the Church", where they created a map of the capital's churches. We found that out of 150 Kyiv churches of the UOC-MP, about 40 were built illegally," the journalist said.
According to her, the Kyiv City Hall has admitted that it did not issue them building permits, but they still stand and work for years or even decades. The city authorities did nothing about unauthorized construction projects-they said that no one complained, so the inspectors never went to these sites.
She also gives a prime example.
"The Church of St. Theodosius (UOC-MP) is located in the center of the capital, near Lviv Square. It was built on the territory of the state tax service, when it was run by a very devout henchman of Yanukovych, Oleksandr Klymenko (allegedly, he built it at his own cost). We were told by the state tax service that they have nothing to do with the land where the temple was built. Kyiv authorities said they had not allocated land for it. This is an unauthorized construction in the center, for which no one allocated land. And as of 2020, there are four dozen such illegal Russian churches: in Podil, in the middle of parks on the Left Bank... yes, everywhere, " Babynets continues.
"The churchmen, when we asked them questions about the legality of the development, hung up or simply did not explain anything. Well, it seems that the time has come to explain why illegally built Russian churches continue to operate in the capital," the journalist sums up.
She also cited a link to a map of the church's self-appropriated plots in Kyiv for complaints to the mayor's office: https://church.slidstvo.info/.
