Originally appeared at: Global Orthodox
Vladimir Bandura, the Ukrainian mayor of Svyatogorsk, a Donbass town, home to the famous Orthodox monastery – the Svyatogorsk Lavra, has defected to the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). He appeared in a video claiming the Ukrainian military killed several monks in the Lavra and set fire to a unique wooden cathedral that belonged to the monastery. He said, there was “confirmed information, that the Nazis are killing priests and monks and concealing these facts.”
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