Lilia Kovalyk-Vasiuta

Representatives of Christian churches in Ukraine strongly condemned the ideology of the “Russian world” (“Russkiy mir”) — as a “chauvinistic doctrine” that “denies the right of the Ukrainian nation to self-determination” and “sovereign development.”

Russian occupiers launched an attack Aug. 22 on St. Teresa of the Child of Jesus Roman Catholic Church in the town of Skadovsk, located in the Kherson region in eastern Ukraine, Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk of Odessa-Simferopol confirmed on Facebook.

Leading forensic experts at the British University of Exeter are collecting evidence and testimonies of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In the course of their work, they met with Ukrainian religious scholars on May 25 to better prepare for future investigations in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands.