Unity for Ukranian Orthodox Christians?

 With Great Lent starting, this sounds like good news: Ukrainian initiative wants to reconcile UOC and OCU :

The unification attempt of the two Orthodox Churches in Ukraine means that Putin’s attempt to gather control over all orthodox believers in Ukraine has failed, the Dutch daily Nederlands Dagblad writes in an analysis. After Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine split as one branch desired independence. In 2019, the Patriarchate of Constantinople officially recognised the independence of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

With the invasion of Ukraine, Putin hoped to unify the whole Ukrainian Orthodoxy under Moscow’s control again, the Nederlands Dagblad writes. Now, that strategy seems to have failed, as the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which stayed loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate, declared its independence right after the invasion as well. The inter-church dialogue seems to show that this denomination is moving closer and closer to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and, thus, further away from the Moscow Patriarchate and Patriarch Kirill.

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