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The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, which was raided by Ukrainian security services in November.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called for the nation’s largest and oldest branch of Christian Orthodoxy to be outlawed as long as it continues to answer to church leaders in Moscow, proposing a new law that he said would ensure the nation will “never allow anyone to build an empire inside the Ukrainian soul.” The law, if enacted, would further strain a centuries-old spiritual relationship between Russia and Ukraine, codifying the already deep rift in the Eastern Orthodox church.Kyiv has long worried that Russia is using the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to provide cover for a network of clandestine agents whose goal is to undermine Ukraine from within. Over the past month, Ukrainian security agencies have engaged in a series of raids of monasteries and religious institutions hunting for saboteurs among the clerics.The Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, has interrogated dozens of religious leaders, administering polygraph tests to some, and claimed to have found “literature that deni …

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