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What Kyiv's church law and veterans' status changed
Summary
A look back at two measures reported in Ukraine on 22 and 23 December 2018, one on church naming and one on veterans.
What was Ukraine's political agenda in the days around 24 December 2018? Two measures reported just before that date stood out: one on a church's name, the other on the status of wartime veterans.
On 23 December 2018, President Petro Poroshenko signed a law requiring the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to state in its name that it belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church. The law set out the obligation in its title, and it was reported as signed on that date.
A day earlier, on 22 December 2018, veterans of the UPA, the Polissian Sich and units of the OUN were legally recognised as participants in combat operations. The recognition was set in law.
Both measures were reported within a two-day span, immediately before the covered date of 24 December 2018.
