The secretary of the Cherkasy City Council became the head of the “parish council” in the recently seized UOC church

Secretary of the Cherkasy City Hall Yuriy Trenkin became the head of the “parish council” of St. Andrew’s Church in Cherkasy, which was recently seized from the Cherkasy Diocese of the UOC. The official said that now “only Ukrainian prayer” will be held in the church. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

«From now on, only Ukrainian prayer will be heard in this church. We pray for the Ukrainian military. For our guys who are in captivity. For peace on the Ukrainian land — despite the centuries-old evil that has come to us again under the Russian tricolor,» — Yuriy Trenkin said.

As a reminder, on May 28, 2025, the executive committee of the Cherkasy City Council convened an extraordinary session, during which it was decided to deprive the city of ownership of all land plots used by the Cherkasy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The meeting was so “urgent” that most of the participants were present online.