Prosecution confiscates church seized by the OCU in Bushevo
A Kyiv Oblast court declared invalid the ownership rights to the Trinity church seized by Dumenko's raiders in 2025 and transferred it to the state.
The Commercial Court of Kyiv Oblast granted the prosecution's claim to transfer into state ownership the 18th-century Trinity Church in the village of Bushevo in the Bila Tserkva district of Kyiv Oblast, which prior to its seizure by representatives of the OCU in 2025 had belonged to a community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This was reported by the Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office.
The court declared invalid the certificate of private ownership rights to the architectural monument of national significance and also ordered the closure of the corresponding section of the State Register of Real Property Rights.
According to the prosecutor's office, the Trinity Church is one of the most valuable examples of wooden architecture of Right-Bank Ukraine of the 18th century and must remain exclusively in state ownership. The office stated that there were no legal grounds for transferring the monument to a religious organization, and that no permission for the alienation of the cultural heritage site had been issued.
As church sources note, for more than twenty years the church had been in the use of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church community. The faithful and clergy of the UOC were engaged in the restoration and maintenance of the ancient shrine.
In October 2025, the Trinity Church was seized by supporters of the OCU. According to media reports and eyewitnesses, representatives of the organization "Bratstvo" and activists of Korchynsky's "Osnova Budushchego" association took part in the events.
As the UOJ reported, local authorities in Bila Tserkva are attempting to seize a monastery building from the UOC.
