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Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, center, crosses herself during the service marking Orthodox Christmas and celebrating independence of Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, center left, and Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, center right, attend a religion service at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019. An independent Ukrainian Orthodox church has been created at a signing ceremony in Turkey, formalizing a split with the Russian church it had been tied to since 1686. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Ukrainian soldiers drive APCs near Urzuf, south coast of Azov sea, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. Ukraine put its military forces on high combat alert and announced martial law this week after Russian border guards fired on and seized three Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speak to soldiers during a visit to a military base in Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov, 28, 2018. Russia and Ukraine traded blame after Russian border guards on Sunday opened fire on three Ukrainian navy vessels and eventually seized them and their crews. The incident put the two countries on war footing and raised international concern. (Mykola Lazarenko, Presidential Press Service via AP)

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gestures during a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. Ukraine's president on Monday urged parliament to impose martial law in the country to fight &quot;growing aggression from Russia,&quot; after a weekend naval confrontation off the disputed Crimean Peninsula in which Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian vessels amid renewed tensions between the neighbors. (Mykola Lazarenko, Presidential Press Service via AP)

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FILE - In this file photo taken on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, centre, is introduced to officials by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, prior to their meeting at the Patriarchate in Istanbul. The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate says it will move forward with its decision to grant Ukrainian clerics independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. The decision was announced Thursday, Oct. 11 following a regular holy synod meeting. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

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In this handout photo released by Russian Orthodox Church Press Service, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill presides over a meeting of the church's Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. The meeting of the Russian Orthodox Church's top hierarchs mulled a response to a decision by Orthodox Christianity's leading body to send two envoys to Ukraine. (Sergey Vlasov, Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP)

Russian Orthodox Church debates strategy on Ukraine

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Russian Orthodox church rejects decision on Ukraine envoys

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FILE - In this Sunday, April 8, 2018 file photo, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest blesses worshippers as they collect traditional cakes and painted eggs for an Easter celebration at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Monastery of the Caves, in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine is lobbying hard for a religious divorce from Russia and some observers say the issue could be decided as soon as September 2018. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

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A woman holds an official poster of "Matilda," a film focusing on on Czar Nicholas II's romantic affair with ballet dancer Matilda Kshesinskaya. The film has aroused controversy in Russia. (Associated Press/File)

Religious extremists in Russia try to shut down movie about romance of Czar Nicholas II

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, an Orthodox protester holds up a sign reading &quot;Stop Matilda&quot; during a protest against the release of a movie depicting a liaison of Russia's last czar in Moscow, Russia. Russia's Culture Ministry says that a controversial historical film about the last Russian czar's affair with a ballerina has been cleared for release. &quot;Matilda,&quot; which is about Nicholas II's relationship with Matilda Kshesinskaya, has drawn virulent criticism from some Orthodox believers and hard-line nationalists, who see it as blasphemy against the emperor, glorified as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Controversial film about Russian czar cleared for release

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In this photo taken on Friday, May 26, 2017, Russian Orthodox believers line up to kiss the relics of Saint Nicholas that were brought from an Italian church where they have lain for 930 years, in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia. Over a million people have visited relics of Saint Nicholas, one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most revered figures, since they were brought to Moscow last month. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

In Moscow, 1 million people visit relics of popular saint

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Russian Orthodox believers gather to kiss the relics of Saint Nicholas in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 21, 2017. Relics of Saint Nicholas, one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most revered figures, arrived in Moscow on Sunday from an Italian church where they have lain for 930 years. An icon of of Saint Nicholas in in the center. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Orthodox priests and believers attend a Cross Walk around the St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. St. Petersburg Orthodox eparchy held a cross procession around the city's St. Isaac's Cathedral to support the plans on the cathedral's handover to the Russian Orthodox Church. Currently the Cathedral has a museum status. The cross procession gathered around 1000 people. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

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A man looks through a cardboard cutout poster during a protest rally against the decision of the city authorities to hand over the city's landmark St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, March 18, 2017. About four thousand people gathered for a protest against the controversial return of the renowned cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

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Russian Church said on Friday that its Patriarch Kirill has sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other spiritual leaders, urging them to help protect the clerics, believers and their faith in Ukraine.

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