His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has written to all the primates of the world’s 15 Local Orthodox Churches to inform them about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and to propose opening a pan-Orthodox discussion on the matter, Fr. Nikolai Balashov, the Deputy Head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, told RIA-Novosti. “The Russian Orthodox Church’s position on so-called Ukrainian autocephaly and on the