“‘Russian World’ Without the Cross: A Ukrainian Priest Was Sentenced to 14 Years for Espionage and Taken from Occupied Zaporizhzhia Region to a Colony in Saratov — in Violation of All Laws”
27.09.2025
In the territories of Donbas and Pryazovia controlled by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, clergy and church activists whose faith does not please the “new authorities” are being repressed. Novaya Gazeta Europe examines the case of a Zaporizhzhia priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) sentenced to 14 years of strict regime — the very church that Moscow, until very recently, called “canonical.”