The Ukrainian Orthodox Church should be independent of Moscow.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church may refer to:
Note also that to the credit of Moscow Patriarchate, Patriarch Kirill did not go on the pseudo-patriotic neo-Soviet bandwagon. He never appeared to be endorsing the annexation of Crimea; his homilies on the Third Russian Civil War have been wise and moderate. The Orthodox tradition is that the local Church prays for the local authority regardless of the sympathies the flock or the clergy might have to the other side in the conflict. So, if Turkey gets itself in war as it has in the past, the Orthodox living in Turkey will be praying for the victory of the Turks. So the position of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Kyiv), and that of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is closer to the tradition on the subject than Volodymyr's, who pushed for unity with the Moscow Patriarchate and now sees the Ukrainians leaving his church considering it collaborationist. But generally, the three large Ukrainian Orthodox Churches have behaved well in this conflict, in my opinion.