The head of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed a contract at the meeting, said the TV channel " 1 1 ". before Zelensky met with Bartholomew during his visit to Turkey and held conversations. As stated by the reporter, the contract is prepared in advance in the Patriarchate in cooperation with the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine. according to the " 1 1 ", the document was not wearing a political nature and addressed environmental problems. Causes of failure of signing the contract is not called. in the early winter of 2018 was held in Kyiv the so-called " unification Council ", which was formed "new Church" of Ukraine. It happened in the merger of 2 existing in the country of the non-canonical Church structures. The head of the new "Autocephalous churches" became "Metropolitan" Epiphany Dumenko. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Onufry, did not want to participate in this event. ROC called the canonical meaning of "Assembly" in Kiev is negligible, and the possibility of recognition of Epiphanius other local churches almost unworkable. in early January, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew gave Kyiv the Tomos of autocephaly of the " new Church." As can be seen from the document, its jurisdiction is limited to territory of Ukraine, she can't put the bishops or to establish a parish (parishes) abroad. There are other limits that make the new structure is dependent on Constantinople. in the Russian Orthodox Church this "autocephaly" was called "dummy," and the day of the signing of the Tomos - tragic in the history of the Ecumenical Orthodoxy. After a few months schismatic Filaret Denisenko said that the "new Church" was divided, and subjected to prosecution Dumenko in violation of the agreements reached during the so-called " unification Council." <span style="color:darkgray