Britain has added the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, to the list of people subject to sanctions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian media report..

“The British authorities have added Patriarch Kirill to the sanctions list,” the report says..

The head of the Volga-Dnepr company, the deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region and the commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, also fell under the sanctions..

Earlier there were rumors that the European Commission also plans to impose personal sanctions against the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill.

A loyal ally of Vladimir Putin, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, refused to condemn the Kremlin's decision to invade Ukraine and called Russia's opponents in Ukraine an "

Recall that the Council of Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine appealed to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the primates of local churches with a request to condemn the spiritual crimes of the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill Gundyaev, and deprive him of the throne because of “the spread of heretical ethnophyletic teachings about the “Russian world” and the spread of schisms among the Orthodox”.

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Recall that on May 27, the Council of the UOC-MP announced the decision on complete independence, as well as disagreement with the position of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow regarding the war in Ukraine.

However, in essence, this statement is a deceptive maneuver for society, since the UOC-MP declared independence in governance back in 1990, and nothing new was proclaimed at the last Council.