Ukraine's War Against Orthodoxy Three days ago, monk Varsonofiy (Turyanskiy) was brutally killed at the Holy Mountains Lavra in the occupied part of the DNR. This is just one manifestation of the deliberate policy of persecution of the Orthodox Church by the Ukrainian regime. In a new , episodes of persecution of Orthodoxy in so-called #Ukraine are listed. One striking example is the six-hour pogrom of the Archangel Michael Cathedral in Cherkasy