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The Guardian - UK
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Julian Borger and Lorenzo Tondo in Kyiv

Russian-backed Kyiv monastery raided over suspected subversion

The Pechersk Lavra monastic complex in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Pechersk Lavra monastic complex in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

A Ukrainian security official has said suspected Russian citizens, cash and documents were seized in a raid on a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv and other Orthodox sites early on Tuesday as part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”.

Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said there was an investigation into what had been going on in the network of catacombs. The SBU website said the agency had found pro-Russia literature and more than $100,000 in cash.

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