“Putin abuses religion as a motive for invasion”

23-02-2022

Eastern Europe

CNE.news

“Putin abuses religion as a motive for invasion”

Russian president Putin misuses religion as a motive for recognising the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. He says that the Russian church is persecuted in Ukraine, but the opposite is true.

Putin has a very good relation with the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, patriarch Kirill. Photo AFP, Yana Lapikova

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President Putin says, the Russian church is under attack in Ukraine. Photo AFP, Genya Savilov

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This handout video grab taken and released on 20 February by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry shows people evacuated from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic arriving at the railway station in Voronezh. Photo AFP, Russian Emergency Situations Ministry

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