Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) charged in absentia a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in occupied Luhansk Oblast with collaborating with Russia’s proxy authorities in the region. Ukraine has long accused the Moscow Patriarchate’s representatives in Ukraine of serving as an arm of the Kremlin’s propaganda in the war. Some “rank-and-file” clergymen have also been convicted of directly assisting Russian troops. Ukraine’s parliament passed on Aug. 20 a much-debated bill banning activities of religious organizations with ties to Russia, a country w…