Patriarch Kirill Calls Those Who Want to ‘Tear Off Southern and Western Russian Lands from Single Russian World’ Enemies

Addressing to believers in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow on March 14, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church spoke about the situation in Ukraine.

He did not forgot to mention the “Russian World” as “the great Russian civilization that emerged from the Kyivan baptism,” which “for more than 400 years enemies have attempted to split and divide.”

According to Patriarch Kirill, “the desire of states on the spaces of the Russian World to have legitimate sovereignty and to realize this sovereignty should not be accompanied by the destruction of a universal, single spiritual space.” The patriarch calls those who want to “divide our people, and especially to tear off the southern and western Russian lands from the single Russian world” enemies.

However, Patriarch called on the faithful to pray for peace in Ukraine, for peace “in the relationship between the brothers, who now live in Ukraine and in the Russian Federation.”