Ukraine focuses suspicions on Orthodox Christian clergymen seen as being loyal to Russia
An investigation of a centuries-old monastic complex in Ukraine’s capital and other religious sites has underscored Ukrainian authorities’ suspicions about some Orthodox Christian clergymen they see as loyal to Russia despite Moscow’s nine month-old war on the country. The search by security service and police personnel at the Pechersk Lavra monastery, one of the most revered Orthodox sites in Kyiv, was unusual but did not happen in isolation. The Ukrainian counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism service reported on November 23 that its agents searched more than 350 church buildings in all — also including sites at another monastery and a diocese...
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