The Culture Wars in Ukraine

Philip Klein: Let's switch direction is just slightly and talk a little bit about what we've described or other people have described as the culture wars. I mean, I saw your vlog about the removal of the Orthodox monks from the monastery in near Kiev Phil. So can you as succinctly as possible put it into a little bit of context for our listeners? Sure. He says there was an announcement that the Russians exchanged 28 Ukrainian soldiers for one Ukrainian Orthodox church pastor or priest. That tells you something that the UOC, the Ukrainian Orthodox church, is still beholden to the patriarch in Moscow,. Patriarch Karel, who was a former KGB agent.