Mykhailo Podolyak

, adviser to the head of the President's Office

, called Russian Patriarch Kirill's call for an alleged "Christmas truce" "propaganda and a trap."

OP's representative wrote about this on his Twitter.

Podolyak, emphasized that the Russian Orthodox Church is not an authority for world Orthodoxy.

Instead, in Russia, the church "acts as a "military propagandist".

"The Russian Orthodox Church calls for the genocide of Ukrainians, incites mass murders and insists on even greater militarization of the Russian Federation. Thus, the Russian Orthodox Church's statement about a "Christmas truce" is a cynical trap and an element of propaganda," the adviser to the head of the President's Office emphasized.

We will remind, on January 5, a supporter of the dictator Putin, head of the Russian Orthodox Church

Kirill cynically called for a truce on Christmas

, January 7.

In his so-called statement, he did not call the war in Ukraine a war, but declared an "interpersonal conflict."

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