OCU award winners stage provocations at UOC court hearings, media report

Maryna Koval and Dumenko. Photo: Telegram channel "Pershy Kozatsky"
Participants in rallies outside courts hearing UOC cases received OCU awards from Epifaniy Dumenko, reports the Telegram channel "Pershy Kozatsky".
The authors of the post found that a group of people who come to the courts where UOC cases are heard has ties to the OCU. The channel published a photo in which Maryna Koval, founder of the public organization (NGO) "Spadok voli," is shown at a reception with Dumenko, who awarded her the Order of Saint Barbara.
The publication says that during an interview with Butkevych, Koval called herself the organizer of the protests outside the courts. According to the journalists, it is she who brings the radical minor Pshenychny and other participants to the hearings. It also states that Koval attends hearings on the cases of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Kyiv Metropolia of the UOC.
"Pershy Kozatsky" recalled that Pshenychny also cooperated with the OCU when he armed took part in the seizure of St. Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy.
As the UOJ reported, online users noticed that activists werre bused to court hearings in UOC cases.
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