DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — Russian authorities in St. Petersburg detained a woman on Monday as part of their investigation of a cafe explosion on Sunday that killed prominent Kremlin-aligned military blogger, Maxim Fomin, also known as Vladlen Tatarsky. Russia’s Investigative Committee identified the woman as Daria Trepova and accused her of involvement in the attack.
Finland is set to join NATO as its 31st member on Tuesday, the military alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, announced. A flag-raising ceremony in Brussels will mark the culmination of Helsinki’s repeatedly delayed path to membership, which was finally approved last week when Turkey’s parliament voted to support its bid. Sweden — which applied to join at the same time — has not yet secured the approval of Hungary and Turkey, holdouts that have blocked the required unanimity for admitting new alliance members.
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“I didn’t do anything. I was never on the side of aggression and never will be,” Metropolitan Pavlo, head of the Lavra monastery, said as he denied the charges before a judge.
Ukraine has long alleged that the local branch of the Orthodox Church has ties to Moscow, but the escalation with Pavlo was a display of how religious tensions have been exacerbated by the war.
Khurshudyan reported from Kyiv, Ukraine, Pietsch from Seoul, Sands from London and Rauhala from Brussels. Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova in Riga, Latvia, and Karen DeYoung in Washington contributed to this report.
