Dear brothers and sisters!

We ask you to be cautious when using social networks and viewing accounts that position themselves as Orthodox.

Often, the accounts and channels, which have nothing in common with the official pages (websites, channels and communities) of the monasteries or other institutions of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, publish the materials from the latter official sources without permission or providing a link to them. Moreover, by using the deepfake technology, sometimes they generate video messages on behalf of the UOC’s priesthood. Such fake pages do not have a wide subscriber base and use the Lavra’s names and symbols.

To avoid misunderstandings, we remind you of the following pages and accounts created with the blessing of the Priesthood and supported by the brethren of the monastery of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Caves Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

These accounts are connected to the official website of the Caves’ Monastery.

• Meta Social Network (“Facebook”)
  • https://www.facebook.com/kievopecherskaya.lavra (Kyiv-Caves Lavra) – 24 thousand subscribers (as of April 2025). This page contains links to the Lavra’s official website and its YouTube channel.
  • https://www.facebook.com/KyivPecherskLavra/ (Lavra.ua) – 43 thousand subscribers. This page publishes media content, including live broadcasts from the temples of the Lower Lavra.
• YouTube channel of the friary monastery of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Caves Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
  • youtube.com/@KCLavra and www.youtube.com/c/KievoPecherskaLavra (the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Caves Lavra) – 86.4 thousand users.
• Telegram-channel
  • t.me/kievlavra (the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Caves Lavra) – 6 thousand subscribers.

We ask you once again to be vigilant and not to spread false content from unofficial sources. It is also advisable to send complaints about the clone pages to the social network support. The administrators of the unofficial Orthodox pages should provide links to the primary sources when using original material.

Brothers and sisters, we wish you to celebrate the Bright Resurrection of our Lord and God Jesus Christ with joy and in peace, to “worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24), and, like the Apostles and the Myrrh-Bearing Women, to spread the glad tidings throughout the world – including by the prudent use of modern technology and social media for the glory of God.