Patriarch Kirill described attempts to destroy the Ukrainian Church as pathetic

“I wish everyone to live this Christmas night in a special way, to feel the presence of God, to pray with all my heart for their loved ones, for themselves, for our Motherland, for those who are suffering today, for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Those who were expelled from Kiev today… Pechersk Lavra, the guardian of true, uncorrupted Orthodoxy for centuries,” the patriarch concluded.