Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill has congratulated Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko on his victory at the recent presidential elections. The churchman has also called on the president-elect to restore peace in the country.
Three churches are widely represented in Ukraine - the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Greek Catholic Church, which is especially influential in the Western part of the country, which once belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
