Between Civic Loyalty and Religious Identity: Has the Muslim World’s Attitude Towards the Russian-Ukrainian War Affected Ukrainian Muslims?
Journal: The World of the Orient
Year: 2025

The Russian-Ukrainian war has highlighted the problem of the relationship between civic loyalty and religious identity, especially against the backdrop of the ambiguous attitude of Muslim countries and movements towards the conflict. In the article, I examine both the reaction on the Russian-Ukrainian war at the level of government structures in Muslim countries and at the level of transnational Islamic movements that have followers in Ukraine. I also examine how Muslim communities in Ukraine ad