Said about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, quoted in "Bartholomew: What is happening in Ukraine is a disgrace that will stigmatize for ever those who caused it", Orthodox Times, 1 May 2022
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We are convinced that the Russian people, at least our Christian Orthodox brothers, can not agree with what is happening to the detriment of their neighboring Ukrainian people
— Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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