“some of the activists attacking churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be connected to Russian special services

“Today they are storming churches that they were told to seize as part of an assignment

“following such actions, Russian propagandists use footage of the raids as evidence of "defending Orthodoxy" from Ukraine

“Russian Orthodoxy’s leaders are instruments of Russian state power

“new attempts to seize the UOC’s Ascension Church in Kyiv’s Demiivka district

“zealous followers of the Russian Patriarchate act in the same way as the opponents of the Apostle Paul did

“the authorities in Ukraine and Armenia were destroying the Church using Bolshevik methods

Robert Amsterdam ›

International human rights lawyer

Reported

“churches, clergy, and monastic communities are increasingly becoming targets of planned attacks