Representatives of the OCU seized an Orthodox church in Ukraine

Representatives of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) seized a church belonging to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in western Ukraine.

This was reported by the Union of Orthodox Journalists.

“On October 4, 2025, a group of OCU raiders seized the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos of the UOC in the village of Mynkivtsi, Rivne region,” the statement said.

According to the Union, representatives of the OCU cut the locks on the church doors with the tacit approval of police officers, who prevented parishioners of the canonical church from entering.

Earlier, it became known that in Ukraine most parishes of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) were stripped of the right to grant exemptions from mobilization to their priests.