As of May 28, Baptist pastor Yuri Sipko, 74, is considered a terrorist and extremist on Rosfinmonitoring, Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service. On the website, it reads, “SIPKO, Yury Kirillovich, born on 28 February 1952, Tara, Omsk Oblast, Russia.” Sipko, the former head of the Union of Evangelical Baptist Christians in Russia, is known for speaking against the war in Ukraine on social media. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation launched a criminal case against him in August 2023, claiming he was spreading false information about military actions.