The United Kingdom on Thursday (June 16th) sanctioned Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, as part of a new round of retaliatory measures in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
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The 75-year-old religious leader, whom the EU recently dropped from blacklisting, "
is being sanctioned for supporting Putin's war
," the foreign ministry said in a statement.