One of my favorite Twitter accounts, Orthodox History, posted a series of tweets really pulling apart everything wrong with this. My favorite was this one comparing this recent statement with the words of St. John Maximovitch, a diaspora bishop of the Russian Church Abroad who fled Russia shortly after the Revolution and spent his life laboring for the Church in Serbia, France, China, and finally the United States:
https://twitter.com/OrthodoxHistory/status/1775260321718141151 The difference is quite striking, in that the statement on the left says that the Russian diaspora is charged with transmitting the love of Russian culture and thereby spreading the Russian World, whereas St. John says their purpose is to bear witness of the Orthodox faith and spread that around the world. What's more, St. John notes that God allowed the USSR to be constituted as a punishment to the Russian people for their sins, while the new document continues to refuse to grapple with that blighted chapter of Russian history. Thankfully, the Russian diaspora here continues to be heavily influenced by St. John and is not easily deceived by nationalist propaganda that forgets the basic reason why they have come to these places.
A side note, but I have friends who were big fans of Pat. Kirill until the war erupted in Ukraine and he cheerled that event. One of them pithily noted that he has a talent for undermining every good argument he can use against Constantinople in their current dispute. People have complained for years about the extent to which the Greek Orthodox Church has taken it upon itself to make the spread of Hellenism and the maintenance of the Greek diaspora a priority over the critical work of Orthodox mission, which has led to many missions around the world being founded under the omophorion of the Russian Orthodox Church. For these Church authorities to turn around and simply declare that actually their main interest is in Russian culture is a betrayal of the trust that these people had placed in Moscow to be a champion of the Orthodox faith at this juncture.
Thankfully Pat. Kirill is not some Orthodox pope who has the ability to command the submission of our wills in this matter, but it is tragic nevertheless to see his fall from grace.