Ukraine court puts Orthodox leader under house arrest

Priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church pray with their supporters after resisting a government order to leave the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery (AP)

A Ukrainian court has ordered a leading Orthodox priest who is accused by authorities of condoning Russia’s invasion to be put under house arrest.

Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site, has denied the charges and resisted the authorities’ order to vacate the complex.