Standing under the rafters of Ukraine’s oldest and holiest Orthodox Christian church, US right-wing influencer Laura Loomer on Wednesday confessed she had been misled by Russian propaganda and that Ukrainians aren’t Nazis but a people heroically fighting for their independence – a political U-turn that media in the war-torn former Soviet republic praised and reported at face value.A self-described investigative journalist and ally of US President Donald Trump, Loomer made the comments published on her social media platforms during a visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the premises of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, an 11th-century religious complex overlooking the Dnipro River.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.Loomer told her 1.9+ million “X” followers that Russian attacks on Ukraine are evil and that the Russian Aerospace Forces in a June 15 raid on Kyiv hit the Lavra premises with Shahed kamikaze drones, setting fires, splitting iconostases, cracking meter-thick walls and blowing out windows. The church is part of a still-active monastery considered by most Orthodox Christians to be the forefront of their religion’s expansion into Europe and Russia.“Vladimir Putin constantly portrays Russia as some kind of savior of Christianity. He likes to present himself [as such] and he says that Russia is going to de-Nazify Ukraine and that they need to invade Ukraine, because, well, they [the Putin regime in Russia] need to make it [Ukraine] a further part of their ‘Christian’ empire,” Loomer said in the 4-minute long, professionally edited video, including B-roll cuts of post-strike fires burning in a church and the Russian leader kissing an Orthodox Christian religious relic.