Russian leader’s dramatic escape

The dramatic flight of Yuri Sipko to escape arrest for criticising Russia’s war on Ukraine was prompted ‘by his Biblical convictions that caused him to speak out’.

That is the verdict of Mark Foster of the Slavic Gospel Association, as Sipko, the former President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (RUECB) between 2002 and 2010, sought refuge in Germany.

Sipko said: ‘A criminal case has been opened against me – they are looking for me to put me in prison because I’ve spoken the truth that Russia waged war on Ukraine. People are dying and everything is being destroyed. It’s criminal, and they should not be doing this. I think everybody should be speaking out against it.’