{
  "id": 16186861,
  "title": "Former Russian Orthodox TV director claims photo of slain fighter from far-right battalion is ‘weeping myrrh’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/former-russian-orthodox-tv-director-claims-photo-of-slain-fighter",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T11:54:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/23/former-russian-orthodox-christian-tv-channel-director-says-photo-of-espanola-battalion-fighter-killed-in-war-with-ukraine-began-weeping-myrrh"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Boris Kostenko, a former director of the Orthodox Christian channel Spas TV who now advises the state secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, said a photograph of a fighter from the Espanola battalion who was killed in the war with Ukraine had “begun weeping myrrh.” The independent Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo reported the remark.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}