Prime Minister Svyrydenko orders to "inventory Lavra's relics," MP says

A reliquary opened by the museum staff. Photo: TG channel "Fortress Lavra"

Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko instructed the Ministry of Culture to "inventory" the relics of the Kyiv Caves saints, reported MP Oleksandr Dubinsky.

He stated that "based on the results of this inventory, the most valuable holy relics of the Venerable Fathers are planned to be stolen through substitution and transferred to the storage facilities of museums in the United Kingdom."

Dubinsky assured that this is a "personal promise of Zelensky to King Charles III."

Earlier, the UOJ wrote that in the Lavra, reserve staff are tampering with the relics of the Venerable Fathers.

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