Patriarch Cyril Concludes Visit to Eastern Ukraine

Patriarch Kirill (Gundyayev) of Moscow has completed his visit to eastern Ukraine. While in eastern Ukraine Patriarch Kirill concelebrated the Sunday services with Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Kiev and a number of other hierarchs and clergy of the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches, participated in the 90th birthday celebrations of Metropolitan Nikodim (Rusnak) of Kharkiv, and laid a wreath at Kharkiv's Memorial of Glory in honor of Victory Day and the soldiers killed during World War II.

Pictured is Patriarch Kirill laying a wreath at Kharkiv's Memorial of Glory in honor of the Ukrainian soldiers and veterans of World War II.