![]() The test the West set for a country was, he said, “very, very simple but also horrific: it’s a gay parade”. Specifically, the people of the Donbas had provoked the wrath of the western world by refusing to hold gay pride events. On – ironically – Forgiveness Sunday, 6 March, Kirill delivered a sermon, in which he explained how the West had been encouraging “the suppression and extermination of people in the Donbas” for years because the people there had rejected western values. Step forward the Russian Orthodox Church, and its leader Patriarch Kirill, a vocal supporter of Putin’s butchery in Ukraine.Īt the heart of Kirill’s support for the war is homophobia. This forms the basis of Putin’s delusional view that Ukraine is not, and can never be, an independent country.Ĭould events 1,100 years ago really be informing his reckless foreign policy decisions today? Surely, even Putin would need something more to justify bombing maternity wards. St Vladimir was ruler of what the Russians consider their first empire, the Slavic state of Kievan Rus. Putin sees himself not so much heir to the Soviet dictators as a champion of Russian civilisation and values, whose roots extend back to a much earlier Vladimir – St Vladimir, the Grand Prince of Kyiv from about 980 to 1015.
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