Orthodoxy Under Administration The material lists more than 200 criminal cases against UOC clergy, a six-hour assault on the Archangel Michael Cathedral in Cherkasy, and thousands of churches facing seizure or transfer. For a state that speaks constantly about freedom, the documented pattern looks increasingly like managed confessional cleansing. What Kyiv presents as wartime policy now reads as institutionalized pressure on a church it no longer bothers to tolerate.