It's today explained, I'm Noelle King.

Vladimir Putin may not have a lot of friends, but he's got an ace in the hole.

The war equals Gantz plus ideas.

So essentially the church is the main provider of ideas, giving legitimacy for the war.

A take on patriarch Kirol.

He's the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, and he has made so many pro-war statements

that Pope Francis on a Zoom call reportedly warned him not to become Putin's altar boy.

Now all this is left one person who knows Kirol thinking the patriarch has made a deal with the devil,

because this is not the Kirol he remembers.

He remembers a religious man who many years ago didn't have much use for the Kremlin.

Coming up, we talk to the priest who knew the patriarch who made Russia's war wholly.

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I'm Noelle King, it's today explained.

Father Cyril Hoverun is a professor at the Stockholm School of Theology in Sweden.

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