Putin’s Church isolated by UOC due to targeting civilians and churches in Ukraine

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Kirill has become rich in the process. And it was reported in 2006 in The Moscow News Kirill’s net worth was $4 billion. 

Putin’s efforts worked. And Kirill has given him unwavering support. He also publicly backed Putin’s re-election bids in 2012 and 2018. And supported Russia’s intervention in the Syrian civil war as well as, the latest invasion of Ukraine.

Kirill downplays experts 

Kirill’s statement on Sunday was an attempt to downplay the importance of losing the rest of the UOC.

“We fully understand how the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is suffering today,” he announced in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in central Moscow. He also warned that “spirits of malice” are trying to divide the Orthodox people of Russia and Ukraine. And claims these spirits will not succeed.

Rebekah Koffler, former DIA intelligence officer and author of “Putin’s Playbook,” explains that “Kirill and Putin are buddies.”  And says Putin “has weaponized the Russian Orthodox religion as a geopolitical tool.”

“The idea of Putin unifying the Russian world, including Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, hinges on the idea that Russia is the center of Christianity and the center of the unique Eurasian civilization that the Russians believe is exceptional just like Americans think America is exceptional,” Koffler added. “Once the church splits, it takes the whole divinity idea out of it.”