Brussels, 2 June 2022 (dpa/MIA) — The European Union gave in to pressure from Hungary on Thursday and will refrain from imposing sanctions on Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill in the latest round of punitive measures on Russia for its Ukrainian invasion, diplomatic sources confirm. This latest compromise on the EU's sixth sanction package on Russia was hammered out at a meeting of EU ambassadors in Luxembourg on Thursday. Hungary made the last-minute push to exempt Kirill, an avid supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday after EU leaders reached a political agreement on the package earlier this week at a special summit. Now the capitals of the 27 member states have until early on Friday to back their ambassadors' green light in writing.