I may be able to explain why AC has brought this up. It is the views by the Patriarch Kirill of the Patriarch Moscow Russian orthodox Church. This is the man who gave Putin the go ahead to enter the Ukraine to rid it of the evils of the west, well that is not really the real answer, it was retrieve the holy city of Kiev and to bring back the renegade Ukrainian Orthodox Church back into the family of the the true church the Russian Orthodox Church and Putin is the agent of God to facilitate this, bit like Mohammad was the agent of Allah to bring the world under Islam.
AC maybe Russian Orthodox which accounts for his pro Russian stand. Just another "holy war".
"So the faithful remnant of Russian Orthodoxy in Donbass in eastern Ukraine have heroically resisted the dreaded Gay Pride for the past eight years, while the rest of the country (which isn’t really a country) has sunk into moral turpitude. President Putin is God’s chosen vessel for meting out divine retribution on the sodomites, and so Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a holy war to ensure the salvation of souls."
Archbishop Cranmer