In Crimea, priests from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate are ready to celebrate their liturgies in mosques.

28/03/2014 Ukrainian Pravda–Life
Translated by Tobias Weihmann and edited by Voices of Ukraine
Source: http://life.pravda.com.ua/society/2014/03/28/160682/

The spokesperson for the Archbishop of Kyiv, Patriarchate Yevtratiy Zoria, declared that Crimean Tatars have proposed to allow priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church [whose posessions in Crimea are reportedly seized by the Moscow Patriarchate] to celebrate the liturgy in their mosques, as quoted by Channel 5.

For now, he said, two priests have left Crimea, eleven others led by Archbishop Clement continue to carry out their service. But all the clergy of the Patriarchate of Kyiv were forced to take their families out of the peninsula.

At the invitation of the Crimean Tatars to pray in their mosques – the Orthodox priests agree they will do so when they feel in immediate danger in their churches in Crimea or if the priests and parishioners of the Kyiv Patriarchate get kicked out of their churches.

“If there is no possiblity for our priests and parishioners to pray in our churches, they will be given place in the mosques. I was assured that they will help us defend our rights and will give us the opportunity to pray in their religious buildings,” declared the Archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) Yevtratiy, on this video: