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The Ukrainian authorities should comply with their international legal obligations and immediately release the vicegerent of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Bishop Pavel, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.
A Ukrainian film distributor co-owned by the producer of the patriotic Russian movies Stalingrad and Battalion secured licenses to distribute and show films in Ukraine during the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the investigative unit of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service has discovered.
Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) feel threatened by supporters of the non-canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) amid orders from the Ukrainian authorities to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, out-of-state Bishop Gedeon (Kharon) of Makarov told Sputnik on Friday.