TODAY: Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, despite truce; new war doctrine could establish NATO as main threat; Ukrainian clergyman says Putin under devil’s spell, accusations of clergy helping rebels; Novatek granted export licence; Medvedev calls for tighter energy security; Estonia a new front?

In defiance of Friday’s OSCE-negotiated truce, fighting continued in eastern Ukraine over the weekend, at first on a smaller scale than previously, and then on a larger scale in Mariupol and Donetsk on Saturday night, with one death, and both sides blaming each other.  Presidents Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko expressed mutual satisfaction with the ceasefire on Saturday.  Mary Dejevsky is holding out hope for the truce: ‘A central question is whether the latest shelling signifies bad faith on the part of Russia or actually demonstrates, as Moscow has insisted, that its control over the separatist fighters is less than western governments believe.’  Russia’s new war doctrine, currently under renovation, could re-establish NATO as Russia’s primary threat.  Patriarch Filaret, a top Ukrainian clergyman, likened Putin to Cain, and said he has fallen under the spell of Satan.  The New York Times looks at evidence that the Orthodox Clergy has been assisting rebel fighters in eastern Ukraine; and quotes Filaret as saying that Russian Orthodox head Patriarch Kirill is too close to the Kremlin.