The UK has imposed new sanctions against the Russians. Patriarch Kirill, in particular, fell under them, whom the country's authorities accused of «actively supporting Russian military aggression in Ukraine,» according to the government's website. . As the British authorities explain, she was on the list for allowing 2,000 children to be forcibly removed from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. In addition, the authorities believe that she «organized a new policy aimed at their forced adoption in Russia.»
Blessed the war. How church hierarchs reacted to the speech of Patriarch Kirill, who supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine
After the start of the war in Ukraine, in mid-March, Patriarch Kirill handed over The August icon of the Mother of God, which is usually signed with the words “This icon was built by dependent Cossacks of the Kletsko-Pochtovsky farm about the health of the soldiers. The next day, the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas of Myra in Amsterdam decided to separate from the Moscow Patriarchate. And the Ukrainian Orthodox Church condemned the position of the Russian patriarch and recalled the commandment “Thou shalt not kill.”