“Some will leave for their small homeland in other regions of Ukraine. Those who have accommodation in Kiev will go to their apartments, as in the 20-30s of the 20th century – they will sit at home, pray , will wait. Probably a small part are “dill patriots”, it does not matter which Church – will remain in the Lavra and pass to the schismatics. Some of the monks faithful to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church will remain in the Lavra and will stand until ‘at the end,’ he said. RIA News source.
On Monday, he also said that some monks from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra had already left the monastery and the library had been partially distributed to parishioners. Moreover, according to him, training at the Theological Academy and Seminary in Kiev is still ongoing, but students are “already packing things up.”
