Patriarch Filaret, the head of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church, has called on the European Union not to treat the conflict in his country’s east as Kyiv’s internal problem and urged the bloc to maintain sanctions against Moscow.
Speaking on May 2 in the European Parliament in Brussels, Filaret said that despite Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its continued support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine, “the aggressor could not go all the way to conquer the rest of the country.”
