The Russian priest said that news of the invasion made him feel 'like the ground was falling away beneath my feet.'
The Russian priest was first interrogated by police after he used the word"war" in an article he wrote on the church's website.
The group also condemned the court ruling of fining Burdin, saying:"The priest is one of the first victims of draconian legislation rushed through parliament and clearly aimed at preventing Russians and Ukrainians in occupied Crimea from hearing and telling the truth about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and ongoing bombing of civilians."
The officers then brought up his use of words in his article. However, the priest insisted that he has nothing to feel guilty about, telling Radio Free Europe that he hasn't"stabbed or killed anyone." A Russian priest has been fined $330 after breaking a new law that bans describing the Ukraine conflict as"war". Above, Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Belarus' counterpart at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 11."They [the police] try to start a conversation with me, but I said to them, and I could have said it on the phone, 'I'm exercising my right.
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