In the view of the visit of the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church (headed either by Patriarch Kirill or Metropolitan Hilarion) to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople on August 31 for a meeting with the Patriarch Bartholomew on the issue of preventing the granting of the “tomos on autocephaly” for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Russian special services (FSB and SVR) are setting up in Ukraine a number of provocations to shape up an agenda favorable to Moscow, as well as planning destructive measures in Istanbul, Ukrainian OSINT analysts say.
UNIAN: Russia to stage provocations during Patriarch Kirill’s Constantinople visit to tar Ukraine
The sun sets behind the Kremlin on the Red Square in Moscow on May 28, 2018.
