(Karl Ritter, AP) Ukraine’s top
security agency notified a top Orthodox priest Saturday that he was
suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression, a criminal offense, amid a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery. Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery,
Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site, has strongly resisted the
authorities’ order to vacate the complex. Earlier in the week, he cursed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, threatening him with
damnation. (...)
