Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has welcomed a decision that gives his country’s Christian Orthodox Church full independence from Russia.
It follows the decision by the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul – the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox believers worldwide.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reports from Kiev.
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