"The political controversy that has been highlighted by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 came to the fore last August, when Kyiv enacted a bill set to restrict the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate."
"The archives documents that can prove these ties and that were accessible to the historians concern only the Soviet times," said Christine Dugoin-Clément, a researcher at the Risk Chair of the Sorbonne Business School.
"The (Russian Orthodox) Church has an extremely widespread network on the Ukrainian territory that can gather information directly from the field. During a war, any information can have tactical military relevance and, at a later stage, strategic importance."
"Dozens of priests belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate have been convicted by Ukrainian courts for collecting military information and passing it to the Russian military intelligence agency GRU."
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