Break the doors, I will not come out, so you'll shoot us?

"Break the doors, I will not come out, so you'll shoot us?" — Monks registered in Kyiv Pechersk Lavra being forcibly evicted by armed law enforcers

Right now, armed law enforcers are storming the 54th, 57th and 58th buildings of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, where not only pilgrims, but also part of the Lavra's brethren live. All 3 buildings are cordoned off, in the 57th building the locks have already been cut off — "policemen" burst inside there.

"I will not go out, I am assigned here, it turns out, from one cell kicked out of the 34th corps two months ago, moved here, now they are kicked out of here. Where to go from here? Just line us all up against the wall, shoot us, and that's it!", Archimandrite Arefa appealed to the conscience of law enforcers.

The monks expelled from the Lavra have nowhere to go, they did not believe in such an outcome until the last moment and refused to leave the enclosures voluntarily, but now the enclosures are being searched.