Vovk will explore Ukraine's recent law banning the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and affiliated religious organizations for the ROC's role in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. He will explain that while this legislation is framed as a national security measure its actual goal is to restructure Ukraine's religious landscape in order to ensure what president Zelensky called "spiritual liberation" of Ukrainians from Russia and its imperialistic claims over Ukraine (similarly to Ukraine's legislation eliminating Russian or Russian-speaking culture and history from Ukraine's public space). Then, Vovk will assess to what extent this decolonization framework applied to a religious group fits international standards of religious freedom.