MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. The Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture will hold an audit of museum exhibits, including holy relics, in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra after representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church leave it, Minister Alexander Tkachenko said.

"I would like to stress for the record that further to real property, museum exhibits are also there - over 800 pieces, including holy relics that were transferred to monks for the use, so to say. There will be an audit in respect of them, to see how they are preserved," Tkachenko said.

On Friday, the Monastery website published a warning from Acting CEO of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra Reserve, demanding that Ukrainian Orthodox Church monks leave the monastery due to invalidation of the rental contract. The document specifies that the working group, which established the violation of the rental contract, was created under order of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky enacting a decision by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called on heads of local orthodox churches, Pope Francis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and other religious leaders and representatives of international organizations to "exerts all possible effort" to prevent the expulsion of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church clergy form the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery.