Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the government in Kyiv of flagrantly meddling in the life of Orthodoxy in Ukraine where a new national church has broken away from Moscow’s orbit.
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Metropolitan Epiphanius and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hold the carry the Tomos decree before the Orthodox Christmas service in St. Sophia Cathedral on Jan. 7, 2019, in Kyiv.
