I’m not calling BS yet but it seems off to me too.
So many thugs in the area, its hard to know who to believe.
Because stupid people keep giving the image that Putin is some kind of a Christian hero, like Buchannon. Truth is the ROC's patriarch is a "former" KGB agent, and churches, not just Protestants, but Catholics too, are persecuted even in Russia proper. There is plenty of this to find on any website that catalogs Christian persecution by country.
We did get a video from the head of the Assemblies of God, which is Pentecostal, about praying for the churches undergoing persecution in Ukraine, just yesterday in church. He said that the missionaries had reported that it’s very bad for them in Ukraine. There’s quite a few of them, and even a bible college in Kiev. I suppose that’s some independent confirmation.
Btw, we have never received a message from the general council asking for prayer like this in all the years I’ve attended.