Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin has enlisted the Russian Orthodox Church to help justify his crusade against Ukrainian statehood but the Orthodox faithful in Ukraine have resoundingly rejected Moscow's appeals
One of the leading figures in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War has admitted that his personal security detail during his time in eastern Ukraine consisted exclusively of monks from the Russian Orthodox Church’s Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery
The loss of Russian Orthodox authority over Ukraine would represent a geopolitical earthquake for Vladimir Putin and a huge setback for his imperial ambitions in the former Soviet space
Ukraine's recent appeal to Constantinople could lead to historic recognition for a unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church and further the ongoing geopolitical divorce between Ukraine and Russia
