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| ‘Inappropriate’ for Pompeo to discuss Ukrainian church affairs with Kiev – Putin | ‘Inappropriate’ for Pompeo to discuss Ukrainian church affairs with Kiev – Putin |
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| It’s “inappropriate” for US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the creation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with Kiev, Vladimir Putin said, while also accusing Ukraine’s government of interfering with religious affairs. | It’s “inappropriate” for US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the creation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with Kiev, Vladimir Putin said, while also accusing Ukraine’s government of interfering with religious affairs. |
| “The Secretary of State calling Kiev and discussing these issues is absolutely inappropriate, but it happened anyway,” Putin told reporters on Thursday. He added that creating an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church was more about domestic politics than religion. | “The Secretary of State calling Kiev and discussing these issues is absolutely inappropriate, but it happened anyway,” Putin told reporters on Thursday. He added that creating an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church was more about domestic politics than religion. |
| “What is happening in Orthodoxy is incomprehensible,” he lamented, adding that the Kiev government has been far from impartial when it came to splitting the Ukrainian Church from Moscow. | |
| Putin said he is equally concerned about church property disputes in Ukraine. “It’s already going on and it can be grave – if not bloody.” | |
| “I feel sorry for the people who stand for their interests, they are defenseless, unarmed, basically, they are the elderly and women.” | |
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