OCU award winners stage provocations at UOC court hearings, media report
Rallies outside courts hearing UOC cases are organized by activists who received awards from Dumenko.
Participants in rallies outside courts hearing UOC cases received OCU awards from Epifaniy Dumenko, reports Pershyi Kozatskyi Telegram channel.
The report's authors found that a group of people who regularly appear outside courthouses during UOC proceedings have ties to the OCU. The channel published a photograph showing Maryna Koval, founder of the NGO Spadok Voli (Legacy of Freedom), at a reception with Dumenko, who awarded her the Order of St. Barbara.
According to the report, Koval described herself as the organizer of courthouse protests during an interview with Butkevych. Journalists say she is the one who brings the underage radical Pshenychnyi and other participants to the hearings. The report also states that Koval attends court proceedings involving the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Kyiv Metropolia of the UOC.
Pershyi Kozatskyi also recalled that Pshenychnyi had cooperated with the OCU when he took part in the seizure of St. Michael's Cathedral in Cherkasy while armed.
As the UOJ reported, footage circulated online showing participants in protests outside UOC court hearings being transported in a minibus.
