Putin participated in the Easter Orthodox service. The Russian leader has been crossing several times when Patriarch Kirill announced “Christ has risen”

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianin, joined other believers for a Easter service led by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful supporter of the Russian leader and a supporter of the Ukraine war.

Vladimir Putin, at the photo resurrection service: Profimedia

A few hours after declaring a unilateral cessation of Easter fire, about which Kiev said it was just a word, while the battles continued, Putin and Sobyanin stayed in the main church of Moscow, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, while Kirill led a procession, the video recorded.

Holding a thin red candle and wearing a dark-colored suit, a white shirt and a red tie as in the past years, the Russian leader has crossed several times when Kirill announced “Christ has risen.”

For Putin, Orthodox faith is essential for its vision of the world and always participates in jobs during the great church holidays. For Orthodox Russians, Easter is the most important religious holiday.

At the job, Kirill asked that “Sustainable and straight peace can be established in the vast stretches of historical Russia”, He reported the State News Agency, in what was a reference to a medieval territory that included parts of what is now Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

“How wonderful it was said: Don't hurt another and don't behave with others as you wouldn't want to behave with you. If people would adhere to this holiday command, then life would be completely different: family and social life and allow me to say that, intergovernmental,” said Kirill.

Patriarch Kirill has firmly supported the Ukraine war, now in the fourth year.

Thousands of people were killed, mostly Ukrainians, and millions have been driven from their homes since Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.