Kyiv has continued its crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, placing a Church leader under house arrest and demanding that Orthodox monks vacate a 1,000-year-old monastery. 
Ukrainian officials accuse the Church of harboring pro-Russia sympathies and collaborating with Moscow. The Church, which distanced itself from Moscow after last year’s invasion of Ukraine, denies the allegations.
Over the weekend, a Kyiv court sentenced Metropolitan Pavel, a Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader, to 60 days under house arrest. The court says Pavel is guilty of condoning “Russian aggression” and inciting “religious divisions.”
Pavel, for his part, maintains his innocence and has described the sentence as “politically motivated.”…