You did know Zelensky banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, didn't you?
There’s the Ukrainian version of the Ukrainian Orthodox church, run from Kiev, and the Russian flavor of it run from Moscow.
They banned the Moscow version.
Most countries with Orthodox churches, like Serbia and Bulgaria and Romania, have their churches run locally. Ukraine had an anomalous imperial leftover.
Russia [read Putin] purges non-Kremlin-aligned churches from occupied territories
by The Kyiv Independent news desk
December 27, 2022 4:25 am