{"id":117424,"date":"2024-12-10T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/117424\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"former-orthodox-spiritual-leader-suspected-of-meddling-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/117424\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Orthodox spiritual leader suspected of meddling in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 10, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is suspecting several Russian clerics of facilitating the capture of churches in temporarily occupied territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SSU cited substantial evidence against four high-ranking Russian clerics who spread the Kremlin regime in Ukraine, including Metropolitan Pavel (Georgiy Ponomarev). In 2013\u20132020, he headed Moscow&#8217;s Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The indictment refers to deliberate actions to change Ukrainian borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Comprehensive measures to bring the perpetrators to justice for crimes against our state continue,&#8221; the SSU said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2020, the Belarusian Exarchate reported on Metropolitan Pavel&#8217;s visit to a hospital treating injured protesters. The church expressed concern over the violence and called for a fair investigation, while condemning brutality and offering prayers for the victims. Despite the church&#8217;s plea, no law enforcement officers were punished for their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Ukrainian expert stresses Minsk&#039;s role in indoctrination of Ukrainian children<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 6, Pozirk. Minsk\u2019s role in Russia-organized forceful displacement, indoctrination and militarization of more than 90,000 Ukrainian kids remains in the background, Kateryna Rashevska of Ukraine&#039;s Regional Center for Human Rights told the US Helsinki Commission in Washington, DC yesterday. &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/117017\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 10, Pozirk. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is suspecting several Russian clerics of facilitating the capture of churches in temporarily occupied territories. The SSU cited substantial evidence against four high-ranking Russian clerics who spread the Kremlin regime in Ukraine, including Metropolitan Pavel (Georgiy Ponomarev). 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