The Russian invasion in Ukraine cannot be fully understood without its very important religious component.
From his televised speech of February 21, Vladimir Putin justified his recognition of the separatist regions of eastern Ukraine by saying that he wanted to protect the Orthodox Church of Ukraine attached to the Patriarchate of Moscow: "
Kiev continues to prepare a repression against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
The Ukrainian authorities have cynically turned the tragedy of the split in the Church into an instrument of state policy
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2018: birth of a Ukrainian Orthodox Church emancipated from Moscow...
What Vladimir Putin calls "split of the Church" did indeed take place: on December 15, 2018, a so-called autocephalous (independent) Ukrainian Orthodox Church was born, resulting from the union of two schismatic Ukrainian Orthodox Churches.
Only two main Orthodox Churches remained in Ukraine: the brand new Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
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