UK sanctions Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill

The British government on Thursday sanctioned Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, as part of a new package of measures in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The 75-year-old religious leader, who the European Union recently renounced to include in its blacklist, “is sanctioned for his support for the war of Putin”, the British Foreign Office said in a statement.

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This measure, which includes a ban on entering the Kingdom United and the freezing of assets in the country, are also directed at Maria Lvova-Belova, mediator for children’s rights in the Kremlin, for the “forced adoption and transfer of Ukrainian children.”

Officials from the transport sector and soldiers accused of “killing, raping and torturing civilians” in Bucha, near Bucha, were also sanctioned. Kyiv.

“We are targeting Putin’s accomplices and perpetrators of the war who are inflicting untold suffering on Ukraine, including the forced removal and adoption of children,” British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said in a statement.

The patriarch Kirillleader of the Russian Orthodox since 2009, has put his church at the service of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, Calling it a “miracle”, sharing his ambition for a conservative Russia and supporting the offensive in Ukraine.

The European Commission proposed to sanction it, but the EU gave it up due to the opposition of Hungary.

Source: Elcomercio

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