Putin’s Holy War

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is defending the military operation to Ukrainian children.

In a meeting with children from Donetsk and Luhansk last year, he emphasized that Donbas is an inseparable part of Russia and called on the youth of Donbas to continue the “heroic tradition” of defending their homeland. Kirill clearly supports the Russian regime and identifies entirely with Putin’s political elite. Yet this should not come as a surprise. Putin has called the breakup of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century,” and Kirill was a KGB agent in Soviet times.

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