Why Russian separatists called an exorcist when they discovered a Ukrainian POW was an evangelical Christian

• A Ukrainian soldier said he was tortured by Russian separatists and forced to undergo an exorcism.
• Viktor Cherniiavskyi said he was targeted because he was an evangelical Christian.
• Some on the US Christian right have ironically shown support for Russia.

A Ukrainian soldier said he was tortured by Russian separatists and forced to undergo an exorcism, partly because of his evangelical Christian faith.

Viktor Cherniiavskyi is now a first-person view (FPV) drone pilot, but he said he was a chaplain to evangelical Christians in the Ukrainian army in 2014 when Russia invaded the Crimean peninsula.

While serving as a volunteer in the city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, Cherniiavskyi said he was captured by Russian-aligned forces.