The publication noted that the record of the divine service was removed from the Soyuz TV channel, but it managed to be distributed in Telegram channels. The video shows that Kirill slipped on the marble floor of the temple, after which other priests and guards approached him.
In a comment to a Russian propaganda agency “RIA Novosti” Cyril said that he fell “without consequences.”
“The fact that I fell today does not mean anything. It’s just that the floor is beautiful, you can look into it, it’s so shiny and smooth. But when water falls on it, even holy water, the laws of physics work. On this beautiful floor I rolled so unfortunately. But, by the grace of God, without any consequences. But on the other hand, all of you will remember, of course, today, just as I will remember it, but with joy, thanksgiving to all of you that this temple was built through your efforts,” he said.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has previously supported Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, but for the first time he spoke about the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine as “about protecting Russia on the battlefield,” notes Radio Svoboda.
For support of the war UK imposed sanctions against Patriarch Kirill. Sanctions against the patriarch and seven other figures of the Russian Orthodox Church recommended also to introduce the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine appealed to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with a request to deprive Cyril of the throne as one of the creators of the ideology of the “Russian world”.
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