After the liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, he expressed confidence that the secular Ukrainian government in the country would also change, TASS writes.

“There will be no trace of the schismatics, because they carry out an evil, diabolical will, destroying Orthodoxy in Kyiv land.

I think it’s not so long to wait,” the patriarch said.

He described what is happening in Ukraine as a frenzy.

On the eve of the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the decision of the Ukrainian authorities to suspend the citizenship of 13 priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) as Satanism.