There can be no “passive stance” when it comes to confronting the danger, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has said The entire planet is threatened by an “evil” that Moscow is currently fighting, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said on Tuesday. Given the importance of the Russian world to human civilization,…

Reality is different from public statements, a German journalist who just visited Kiev has said While the Ukrainian government paints a rosy picture of the conflict at press conferences, senior officials admit in private that the situation is grim, Paul Ronzheimer, the deputy editor-in-chief at the German outlet BILD, said on Friday.

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