Patriarch Kirill, an enthusiastic backer of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, blessed icons and crosses that were to be engraved with the president’s initials and sent to servicemen in the 34-month-old ...
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The diary showing signs of brainwashing are among possessions retrieved from the bodies of troops sent 7,000 miles from their homeland to shore up Vladimir Putin’s attempt to claw back ground in ...