The usage of artillery shells as a theme everywhere really scores home the "we blew all our taxpayer money on a 40k fanfic so we no longer have funds to pay the families of dead conscripts." All in all, nice building. Just a shame it's a church for the blood god, as Russian people did not need another tribute to the skull throne
IDK, looks like a condom to me.
Unless it's deliberate, I want to take exception with the photographer. A square on shot that places the whateveritis such that it merges with the detail of a doorway canopy (unless that's wingy-things off the tip of the wii, but then these merge with the arched-end of the semi-domed apse) indicates little willingness, or ability, to move the camera around to emphasise the spatial difference between near and far features when rendered into a flattened image.
I think a slight sidestep and/or using a crouch (or stepladder, or - at a pinch - hold it high) to realign where the camera viewpoint is from. I very much doubt that this is the perfect profile shot (or the perfect choice from all those taken from that general direction and published).
And if it's deliberate (like those where some politician is stood in front of a background featuring the word "country", where they happen to obscure the letter "U", or the precise angle where twin mike-heads on a lectern are exactly in front of the speaker's eyes), then I don't get it. So still a photo-fail.
(That's my emotional response. I hope it helps.)
PS. Putin sent a whole lot more Russian 'volunteers' over the border to kill civilians, already. I hardly think he has any high-ground, on balance. Not that this bothers him, but it should bother others more than that little "jolly boys' outing".