Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles into Israel in response to Tel Aviv's campaign against Tehran's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon. The order to launch the missiles against Israel was given by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
US condemns Iran attack on Israel as major escalation while Trump has called for Israel
to strike Iran's nuclear facilities in response to the recent missile barrage from Iran.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
Kirill has lauded the Russian invasion of Ukraine, justifying the war as a struggle against "forces of evil". The World Russian People's Council under his leadership described the conflict as a "Holy War". Clergy in other Orthodox Churches have condemned his remarks, with Bartholomew I saying that Kirill's support for Putin and the war were "damaging to the prestige of the whole of Orthodoxy"