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Christianity arrived in the territory of modern-day Ukraine long before Moscow was founded. In 988, Prince Volodymyr the Great baptised Kyivan Rus' in Kyiv, the major city of Eastern Slavs at the time. From Kyiv, Christianity spread north to regions where Moscow (founded only in 1147) would later emerge.
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The transfer of the Kyivan Metropolia to the Moscow Patriarchate in 1686 was uncanonical and limited. This decision was made under significant pressure from Moscow. Also, this act did not fully transfer the Kyivan Metropolia to Moscow's jurisdiction, in reality, it only granted the Moscow Patriarch the right to ordain the Kyivan Metropolitan, while preserving all older rights under Constantinople.
However, Moscow disregarded these conditions, leading to a de facto uncanonical subordination.

In 2018, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I officially revoked this act, confirming its uncanonical nature and restoring Constantinople's direct jurisdiction over the Kyivan Metropolia before giving Tomos to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

Ukraine has supported every US-brokered peace initiative, demonstrating its commitment to a just end to the war. Russia, by contrast, has dismissed these proposals—a clear indication it intends to persist in its aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine once held 1,900 nuclear warheads, the third-largest arsenal on Earth. In 1994, it surrendered them under the Budapest Memorandum, trusting U.S., U.K., and Russia for protection — but those were only “assurances,” not real guarantees. 🇺🇦 When Russia seized Crimea in 2014 and launched a full invasion in 2022, those promises collapsed. Today, as Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff negotiates with Putin, Kyiv fears one thing most: another empty deal. History taught Ukraine a brutal lesson — paper promises don’t stop tanks. No weak guarantees. No blind trust. Never again 1994. ⚠️ #Ukraine #BudapestMemorandum #Russia #USA #UK #SecurityGuarantees #Trump #Putin #Geopolitics #WarAnalysis