English: The cross of the Russian Orthodox Church, U+2626. עברית: צלב הכנסייה האורתודוקסית הרוסית (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Once again, as was the case in Iraq, the US is acting as an international executioner,” Metropolitan Hilarion, who heads the external-relations department of the Moscow Patriarchate, told the AsiaNews service. “Once again thousands of lives will be sacrificed on the altar of an imaginary democracy.”