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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Karl Ritter

Ukrainian cleric in court amid dispute over Kyiv monastery

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Ukraine's top security agency notified a top Orthodox priest Saturday that he was suspected of justifying Russia's aggression amid a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery.

Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site, has strongly resisted the authorities' order to vacate the complex. Earlier in the week, he cursed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, threatening him with damnation.

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