Abstract
Religion and political spirituality play a core role in Russia’s Ukraine war. They serve as blueprints of justification and motivation, and in this function have replaced ideology as immaterial kit. They lend the aura of metaphysical substance to the nihilistic system of Putin’s authoritarian regime, camouflaging egocentric domestic and foreign policy goals under seemingly higher consecrations. Both the role of Orthodoxy as the de facto regime religion under Putin and the eschatological-apocalyptic philosophy of Alexandr Dugin have become essential factors in Russia’s war of aggression.