Wait, the church that was pro Russia was busted? Shocking.

Really Soviet passports? Like not Russian but SOVIET?

https://youtu.be/bBMeMrPuQyU

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

> Ukraine's SBU security service found pro-Russian books, large amounts of cash in various currencies and Russian citizens amid raids on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and on other premises of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

> "During document checks, some of them either provided passports and military tickets of Soviet design, or only copies, or they had passports of citizens of Ukraine with signs of forgery or damage," the SBU said.

> The person is a trustee of the owner of the eponymous Russian company ANTVAN GROUP, Russian citizen O. V. Orlov, who owned several land plots and public catering establishments in Ukraine.

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Would a Soviet passport even be useful these days?

It would be as useful as the north korean civilian passports

Well, not so much for being pro-russian. It's an important distinction.