Bangladesh, Jan. 8 -- Ukraines domestic security service has launched an investigation into a monastery in Kyiv amid allegations that it has been operating an unlicensed school using Russian-language instruction and Soviet-era educational materials. The case has reignited a sensitive national debate over religion, identity, and alleged Russian influence during a war that Kyiv increasingly frames not only as a military struggle, but as a battle for cultural and generational sovereignty.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed that it is examining “possible unlawful activity” at the Holosiiv Pustyn monastery, a religious site affiliated with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church linked historically to the Moscow Patriarchate. A...