Last year, on September 15, 2018, Metropolitan Ilarion, chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church’s External Relations Department, in an interview with RT television said: “If the [Moscow Patriarchate] recognizes the Church as an aggressor, if it is deprived of legal rights, then we can expect everything: that the schismatics will take control of the great monasteries such as the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra, the Pochayiv Lavra. Then, of course, the Orthodox believers will protect these holy places and bloodshed could follow.”
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