Kremlin Antichrist struck. The Russians struck “the Orthodox Vatican”
These are the words of the Metropolitan Epiphany of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine created out of schismatics by the CIA controlled Patriarch of Constantinople, which created a little schism within Orthodoxy. Now everybody is acting how the Ukrainians are godly compared to the Russians. The Ukrainians might be more church going but their religious landscape is divided by schisms and Pope veneration.
I am not religious but I can safely say that in Ukraine there isn’t much of a divide between Church and State and religion is extremely politicized. The Ukrainians claim that the Russian Orthodox Church is an arm of the state, a form of Russian soft power. I would say the Russian Orthodox Church is much more autonomous from the state. The various old believers also exist alongside the state. In occupied territories of Ukraine, there is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as the Russian Orthodox Church views it as their canonical territory.
I am not sure why the Russians would wasted their rockets and drones on a church. The Russians blame faulty air defense.
Insomniac Resurrected 