This is the first time the Russian President has called for a pause in the fighting, but Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted to “Keep hypocrisy to yourself”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call Thursday for a ceasefire in Ukraine to mark Orthodox Christmas was immediately rejected by Kyiv, which retorted that Moscow should withdraw its troops if it desires an end to hostilities.
Tens of thousands of people on both sides have been killed in the 10-month-old war, and millions of Ukrainians have been driven from their homes. Despite successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in recent months, Russia still occupies about 15 per cent of its neighbour’s territory. However, many Ukrainian Orthodox churches cut their ties to the Moscow Patriarchate after Russia seized Crimea in 2014. Hundreds more switched their allegiance to either the Kyiv Patriarchate or the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine after the start of the full-scale invasion last year.Underscoring the break with Moscow, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine recently allowed its congregations to shift their Christmas celebrations from Jan. 7 to Dec.
“Putin really does not want a repetition of that on Orthodox Christmas Day,” wrote Tatiana Stanovaya, an expert on Russian politics and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “And we must not forget the noble publicity game: In this war Putin feels like the ‘good guy,’ doing a good deed not only for himself and ‘brotherly peoples’ of Russia and Ukraine, but also for the world, freeing it from American ‘hegemony.
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