INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday posthumously awarded the highest state decoration to pro-Kremlin archpriest Mikhail Vasilyev,
who died in Ukraine over the weekend.The archpriest had said women should have more children to ease the pain of sending their sons to the
special military operation in Ukraine, while performing pastoral duties," the Orthodox Church said in a press release.Born in 1971, the
cleric had been to "hotspots and peacekeeping operations" including in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Syria, according to the church's
statement.Russian state television correspondent Alexander Sladkov said the priest died during a missile strike "like a warrior priest,
among paratroopers."During a broadcast by Church-affiliated channel Spas, Vasilyev had been asked if he could understand a mother who sent
then of course she would not have just one child, but more," Vasilyev answered."And that means, she would not find it so painful and
