The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) held the World Russian People's Council in Moscow on March 27-28 and approved an ideological document framing Russia's war in Ukraine as a "holy war" - a significant departure from the Kremlin's previous careful avoidance of official war framing.

ROC MP combined Kremlin ideological narratives to form a broader nationalist ideology around the war against Ukraine and Russia's expansionist future

The ROC MP called Putin's 'special military operation' a holy war (Svyashennaya Voyna) and a new stage in the Russian people's struggle for 'national liberation...in southwestern Russia,' referencing eastern and southeastern Ukraine.

The ROC MP claimed that the war in Ukraine is a holy war because Russia is defending 'Holy Russia' and the world from the onslaught of globalism and the victory of the West, which has fallen into Satanism.

The ROC MP asserted that the war in Ukraine will conclude with Russia seizing exclusive influence over the entire territory of modern Ukraine and the exclusion of any Ukrainian government that the Kremlin determines to be hostile to Russia.

The ROC MP called for the codification of elements of the Russkiy Mir and may be gauging public support for the formal inclusion of ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians in the Kremlin's concept of the Russian nation.

The ROC MP called on Russia to codify the 'trinity doctrine' in law, make it an 'integral part' of the Russian legal system, include it in the 'normative list' of Russian spiritual and moral values, and give the concept legal protection.

The ROC MP stated that Russia should return to the 'trinity doctrine' of the Russian nation, which falsely asserts that the 'Russian nation' is comprised of sub-groups of ethnic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians whom Russia should reunify.