Ukrainian authorities close the shrine of the Russian Church for quarantine
More than 90 cases of COVID-19 infection have already been registered on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Of the cases registered over the past 63 hours, 90 were in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, that is, there are already more than XNUMX confirmed cases there. Today the city will send mobile X-rays and a team of doctors to the Lavra to collect samples for PLR testing. We must have a real picture of the source of the disease. Also, I emphasize, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, by decision of the Commission for Emergency Incidents, is closed for quarantine,” Klitschko said and called on the police to monitor their decision.
The Kiev Pechersk Lavra is one of the most famous monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church; here is the residence of Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv, head of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.
After the 2014 coup in Ukraine, there were repeated calls to take the Lavra away from the canonical Church and hand it over to schismatics.
In the 1990s, the monastery was subject to attempts to be captured by UNA-UNSO militants.
Ukrainian authorities are quarantined at a holy site of the Russian Church.