The attackers set fire to a hospital Church of St. Panteleimon in the Ukrainian city of Kovel in Volyn region, informs the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP). The arson was committed from 2 sides of the Church building in the night of 23 to 24 may, according to a report on the Internet office of the UOC-MP." The fire brigade arrived on the call accidental witness, managed to stop the fire. The Church has not suffered ", - said the press service. However, sustained damage in the Sunday school room in the basement of the temple. "In Vladimir-Volyn eparchy emphasize that a week before this incident in the local newspaper" the news of Coolmine "published an article which called for local authorities to give one of hospital churches Kovel in subordination to the So-called" Kyivan Patriarchate ", - the press service of the UOC. Again, the attacks on the Orthodox clergy in Ukraine for the last period of time there are more and more often. So, on 28 April, the deputies of the Ternopil regional Council appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with the petition to take away from the Pochaev Lavra cathedrals, the bell tower and cloisters, where the monks live, and to give to the jurisdiction of the Kremenets-Pochaev state historical-architectural reserve. Eleven of February. Then the bullies got on the platform of the centenary of St. John Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the village Demidovka Rivne region of Ukraine and ransacked. On January 28 it was declared about the robbery of a men's monastery in the village Hawtin Rivne oblast in Western Ukraine. 27 January to commemorate the burning Of the wooden Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. At the end of December of last year the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate announced the capture of the 2 churches of the diocese of Rivne, where entrenched, According to clerics, fighters of " Right sector* ". Some strong young men Then cut the door locks and broke into the Church. We will add that on 10 February, the head of the Department for external Church relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Mitrofan of Lugansk gave to the Council of Europe information About power grabs and attacks on Orthodox churches and tried to convince the international Commonwealth to protect the rights of believers in Ukraine. On February 27, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Gennady Gatilov said that in the process unleashed by the Kiev military actions in Eastern Ukraine destroyed Orthodox churches and monasteries, the believers have been harassed and bullied by Ukrainian nationalists. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated that attacks on religious shrines in Ukraine happen with the connivance of Kiev. The Holy Synod of the UOC in the early winter of last year addressed to the President of the country Petro Poroshenko in connection with the crisis in the Ukrainian society, " noting that at the end of hostilities in the South-East of Ukraine destroyed or damaged nearly 90 churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. * Organization, relative to which a court has adopted the legally effective conclusion Of destruction or prohibition of the activities on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"