Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov stated that the West is trying to deliberately destroy everything that has to do with the Orthodox faith.

“The West, led by the United States of America, is deliberately seeking to destroy everything that has to do with Russia and Orthodox Christianity,” he said.

Lavrov also pointed out that over the last several years, the United States have been manipulating the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, and that “they had set a course towards the destruction of Orthodox Christianity” in that period.