Kiev's seizures of Orthodox churches give the nine-year-old fighting an almost religious character, local priests say. The persecution of the Church in Ukraine did not begin today – it was part of state policy.
How Orthodoxy in the former Ukrainian SSR became a symbol of the struggle to remain itself, and what the special military operation changed for believers. "They killed those who did not feel sorry" "They have brought it to the point that there is a religious war going on," says Father Theophanes.