Orthodox Church Leader in Ukraine Placed Under House Arrest for Alleged Support of Russian Invasion

A court in Kyiv has placed Metropolitan Pavlo, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, under house arrest for 60 days on charges of inciting inter-religious enmity and justifying Russian aggression. The Ukrainian government has been cracking down on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church over its historic ties to the Russian Orthodox Church. The dispute surrounding the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery is part of a wider religious conflict that has unfolded in parallel with the war. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has insisted that it's loyal to Ukraine and has denounced the Russian invasion from the start.