Divine Liturgy

Worshipers lighting candles at a Divine Liturgy at St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv to mark Palm Sunday, on April 9, a week before the Orthodox Easter.

The Russian leader crossed himself several times during the ceremony, known as the Divine Liturgy.

State television showed two live clips of Putin inside the gilded Cathedral of the Annunciation as Orthodox priests conducted the midnight service, known as the Divine Liturgy.

In 2021, he took part in a public Divine Liturgy in Novgorod.

In a service given to mark the Divine Liturgy, Kirill on Friday criticised Ukraine for cracking down on a branch of the Orthodox church with longstanding ties to Moscow.