Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that she conducted “counterintelligence measures” in monasteries and temples of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Zhytomyr, Rivne and Transcarpathian regions of the country.
The SBU message, published on social networks, mention five monasteries and three temples in which the department employees are searches, Medusa notes.
“taking into account the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, these measures are also carried out to prevent the use of religious communities as cells of the” Russian world “and protect the population from provocations and terrorist acts,” the SBU said.
Earlier in November, the SBU conducted searches on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, setting this step by “the confrontation of the use of the Lavra as a cell of the” Russian world “.