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March 5, 2015. The Orthodox Trinity Church, located in the village of Troitskoye in the Popasnaya District of Ukraine’s Luhansk Region, was seriously damaged as a result of shelling, report the Severodonetsk Diocese and Interfax.

March 3, 2015. The Sumy diocese (Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate) issued the Declaration with regard to the provocation that took place near the Transfiguration Cathedral in Sumy on the 1st of March 2015, on Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.

March 2, 2015. A group of nationalists started problems on the grounds of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration belonging to Moscow Patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in the Ukrainian town of Sumy, report the diocese of Sumy and Interfax.

February 12, 2015. The Right Sector captured a church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) in the Cherkassk region (Ukraine). The clergy of the church was forced to change their jurisdiction from the Moscow Patriarchate to the Kiev Patriarchate as reports the UOC MP website.

February 9, 2015. Representative of the Russian Church in Strasbourg Hegumen Philip (Ryabykh) urges to not allow new persecutions of Orthodox Christians similar to those of the Soviet times, reports Interfax agency. As was reported, late in January the Kiev Council excluded the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the list of religious organizations that have privileges when paying real estate tax.