In his interview to the Pershy edition, the so-called “Metropolitan” Mikhail Zinkevich of Lutzk of the schismatic structure calling itself the "Orthodox Church of Ukraine" (OCU) claimed that a “common church for the Ukrainian people” needs to be formed, bringing together the OCU, the Greek Catholics, and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. “We would like to see a unified church in which there would be no Moscow Patriarchate, or Greek-catholics, or OCU, but it will be one common big Church,” Zinkevich said. "There would be no such names. It must be called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, with no additions or qualifications. Just the church of the Ukrainian people. And that should be all.”

Expanding on the future union with the Greek Catholics, he quoted a Canada case. “This is a process of creating a union between the Greek catholics, the Moscow Patriarchate, and the OCU, into a huge united Ukrainian church. Look at Canada, where the Greek catholic parish has united with the OCU in a cathedral. This is a precedent, a conscious choice made by believers. We have not seen anything like that before.” 

In September this year, the OCU Head Epiphany Dumenko claimed the OCU and the Ukrainian Greek catholics “were moving in the same direction.” However, he pointed out, the key to the unification of the OCU and the UGCC is not in Ukraine but in Rome and Constantinople. “After all, this is where ecumenical communion takes place. Therefore, the future of our relations here in Ukraine will depend on them. But these relations are good, and I believe that they will only improve,” the head of the OCU concluded.