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He is shaggy-haired and bearded, clad in a blue button-up shirt, dark trousers, and worn-in boots — inconspicuous enough among the monks and their apprentices roaming the grounds of Kyiv’s Svyato-Pokrovskyy Holosiivskyy Monastery.

But this blue-eyed man is different from all the others here.

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