Metropolitan Pavel called the Kiev court’s decision on his house arrest a ‘political order’

According to the Metropolitan, as a believer, he accepts everything as God’s will – “absolutely calmly and with honor”, and this whole situation is “nothing but a political order”.”There is no reason. I did nothing. I know this is a political order, because I was threatened. The Ukrainian security service called me to the director of the museum, they said to open (a file)…I know who it is, but I won’t understand it – it’s not my style,” Metropolitan Pavel said.To this, he added that at the address where he was to serve his sentence, there was no connection, no heat, no light, “neither a cup nor a spoon”.
On Saturday, the court sent the Vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Canonical Church (UOC) Pavel, under house arrest for 2 months, accusing him of inciting interreligious hatred and justifying the Russian actions in Ukraine.The head of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Legoyda, said that the house arrest of Metropolitan Pavel, vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, is a anarchy.