The Russian Orthodox Church this week approved a document declaring its country’s self-described “special military operation” against Ukraine as a “holy war” being waged to protect Russia’s “spiritual space.”

The declaration was made in a document approved during a gathering of the World Russian People’s Council, which brought religious, cultural, and political figures together at the Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, reports Newsweek.

“From a spiritual and moral point of view, the special military operation is a Holy War, in which Russia and its people, are defending the single spiritual space of Holy Russia,” said the document, released under the heading of “special military operation,” the Kremlin’s official term for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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