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In connection with the Ukraine war, a meeting with Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is currently not possible, according to Pope Francis. “I regret that the Vatican had to cancel a second meeting with Patriarch Kirill that we had planned for June in Jerusalem,” the Catholic Church leader told the Argentinian newspaper La Nación in an interview published on Thursday. The Vatican diplomats had understood that a meeting at the moment could cause confusion. Pope Francis last met Kirill in Cuba in 2016. In mid-March this year, the Argentinian pontiff and the Russian patriarch spoke i…