Ukraine takes new step towards banning its largest Christian church | 31 Aug 2025 | Kiev has taken another step toward banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) by officially declaring it linked to Russia. The ruling paves the way for a full ban on the country's largest religious institution through the courts. Vladimir Zelensky's [satanic] government has been increasingly taking aim at the UOC in recent years, a policy that has hardened in light of the conflict with Russia. Several of its churches have been seized, and criminal cases have been opened against clerics. This week, Ukraine's State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience posted a statement on its website saying that the UOC had been found to be associated with "a foreign religious organization whose activities are banned in Ukraine."