Register of 'draft dodgers', return of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra property to state: highlights of the day

Moscow Patriarchate church epic continues

On the morning of March 30, representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate did not leave the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery and continued to hold services there, despite the expiration of the lease for the facilities. Meanwhile, the UOC-MP believers did not allow the Ministry of Culture's commission, which was supposed to inspect the two buildings, to enter the Lavra's premises. In response, the ministry filed a complaint with the police for obstructing the commission's work.

Journalists who were working on the premises of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on the morning of March 30 also filed complaints with the police. In particular, public broadcaster Suspilne reported that one of the priests interfered with the work of their film crew, pushed a reporter and tore off the camera mount on the cameraman's camera. The police opened a case of obstruction of the legitimate professional activities of journalists.

Meanwhile, the Kyiv Commercial Court did not support the UOC-MP's request to ban eviction from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra while the lawsuit to invalidate the termination of the lease of the monastery's facilities is pending. The government has also recognized the 2013 decree by which the UOC-MP was granted free use of the Lavra's buildings and facilities as invalid. After that, Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko said that the management of the Lavra's property was transferred to the state.

First sentence for deportation from Crimea

The first verdict for the deportation of civilians from Crimea was passed in Ukraine. The "head of the Armyansk City Court of the Republic of Crimea" was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison.

According to the investigation, the "judge" knew that since 2014, Crimean residents have had the status of persons protected by international humanitarian law. But she still decided to expel a citizen of Ukraine from the territory of the temporarily occupied peninsula due to the alleged lack of permits and non-compliance with the "rules of stay in the territory of the Russian Federation".

The head of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, Ihor Ponochovnyi, said that this decision is "a kind of precedent in the national legal system."

Ukraine wants to create a register of "draft dodgers"

A member of the parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence, Fedir Venislavskyi, said he was working on a draft law on the so-called register of "draft dodgers".

The MP proposes that if a person liable for military service fails to report to a recruitment center, for example, twice in a row, the center will have the right to publish his personal data. If the man does fulfill his obligation, the information will be removed from the register.

This document has not yet been registered in the Verkhovna Rada as the parliamentarian is finalizing the details of this legislative initiative.

Other news

• An American journalist who was preparing a story about the Wagner PMC was detained in Russia.
• A court in France refused to extradite Ukrainian businessman Kostiantyn Zhevaho.
• In Lviv, robot Da Vinci operated on a one-year-old child for the first time in Eastern Europe.
• Raiffeisen Bank announces that it plans to sell or spin off its Russian business.
• Kalush Orchestra became the ambassador of one of the brigades of the "Offensive Guard".
• The OSCE supports an investigation into the deportation and displacement of Ukrainian children.
• The Ukrainian Parliament considers it a mistake to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) on fuel after the start of the full-scale war.
• According to Yahoo News, Ukraine had almost convinced three Russian pilots to desert their planes, but the FSB intervened.