...Alevtina's mentor sister, Maria-Agafia, told the Kyiv Post that she had been shown photos from the crime scene. "Her killer was so cruel. He strangled and beat her. The burns from the cigarette stubs were all over her body. Her hands were tied," she said.
She also claimed that Alevtina's murderer had tried to force the nun to sign over her city apartment...
...Also on Wednesday, Father Roman Nikolayev, 40, of the Church of St Tatiana died after being shot in the head last Sunday. He was found by a neighbour near his house in Kiev's Obolon district.
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill has condemned the murders. "It is especially alarming that these outrageous murders of a priest and a nun were committed at the very time when seizures of churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continue, when false charges and threats are voiced in the public space concerning its clergy, monks and laity," he said in a statement...