Filaret: If not for the Kyiv Patriarchate, Putin would have captured Kyiv
The head of the self-proclaimed UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate, Filaret, received the deputy faction of the nationalist party “Svoboda” in the Kiev Council. “Svoboda” members, during a conversation with Filaret, described the Russian Orthodox Church as “a fulcrum for Russian aggression.” According to right-wing radicals, “if there had been no Moscow Patriarchate in Kyiv, then the situation would have been 30-40% less acute, and Putin would have been able to capture much less in Ukraine than...