Ukraine's Zelenskiy signs law banning Moscow-linked religious institutions

Reuters

August 24, 2024 at 4:23 a.m.

FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Zelenskiy speaks next to service members next to F-16 fighting aircrafts during marking the Day of the Ukrainian Air Forces in an undisclosed location in Ukraine

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed a law banning Moscow-linked religious organisations, the parliament website said on Saturday.

The bill approved by parliament earlier this month created the legal tools for the government to ban activities of a Russia-linked branch of the Orthodox church and paved the way for a historic rupture with an institution that Kyiv has accused of complicity in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

(Reporting by Olena Harmash; Editing by Jan Harvey)

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