“Something big will happen”: on Mount Athos the Russian oligarch’s prophecy about the war in Ukraine

Not even Umberto Eco could have conceived such a gloomy plot. A few days before the Russian assault on Ukraine, in one of the most famous hermitages in the world, a man whispers to a monk that “something big will happen very soon. But don’t be alarmed, worried or frightened. It will be over in a couple of days. “.

The sacred place of the bomb-anticipation of Putin’s war is Mount Athos, the Greek peninsula inhabited exclusively by Orthodox monks and famous because women cannot set foot there.