Yes. However, Deacon Kuraev (the all-Russia evangelist) noted several times on his blog that it is normal for a local Orthodox Church to pray for their country’s military, even as the other side, in case it is also Orthodox, would be praying for theirs.
This is not ethno-phyletism strictly speaking though, is it? The Moscow Patriarchy considers Ukraine its canonical territory. They may end up in total rupture, if they are not there yet.
” Deacon Kuraev (the all-Russia evangelist) noted several times on his blog that it is normal for a local Orthodox Church to pray for their country’s military,”
We do at every liturgy. This isn’t the problem. Nor are any efforts to reclaim canonical territory. Supporting an aggressive war in the name of Orthodoxy, or in the name of a Patriarchate is. What is worse is any notion of “otherness” within The Church.
I don’t suggest for a minute that Greeks are not prone to the latter in spades, especially here in America. That phyletism probably will mean that the future of Orthodoxy in America will look a lot more like that seen in Antiochian parishes than in Greek ones.