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Ukraine searches monastic complex, prompts anger in Moscow

FILE - A priest leads a mass at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Ukraine’s counter-intelligence service, police and the country's National Guard on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 searched the Pechersk Lavra monastic complex, one of the most famous Orthodox Christian sites in the capital, Kyiv, after a priest spoke favorably about Russia – Ukraine’s invader – during a service there. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) FILE - A woman walks outside the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Ukraine’s counter-intelligence service, police and the country's National Guard on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 searched the Pechersk Lavra monastic complex, one of the most famous Orthodox Christian sites in the capital, Kyiv, after a priest spoke favorably about Russia – Ukraine’s invader – during a service there. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) FILE - A woman leaves the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Ukraine’s counter-intelligence service, police and the country's National Guard on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 searched the Pechersk Lavra monastic complex, one of the most famous Orthodox Christian sites in the capital, Kyiv, after a priest spoke favorably about Russia – Ukraine’s invader – during a service there. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) FILE - An aerial photo shows the thousand-year-old Monastery of Caves, also known as Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the holiest site of Eastern Orthodox Christians taken through morning fog during a sunrise in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Ukraine’s counter-intelligence service, police and the country's National Guard on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 searched the Pechersk Lavra monastic complex, one of the most famous Orthodox Christian sites in the capital, Kyiv, after a priest spoke favorably about Russia – Ukraine’s invader – during a service there. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Ukraine searches monastic complex, prompts anger in Moscow