⚠️ The December 14 Kyiv Negotiations: Victory or Capitulation?

A newly published insider chronicle of the 2018 Kyiv negotiations offers a controversial account of the events surrounding the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The article examines Georgios Frangakis’s account of the December 14 meeting between the Ecumenical Patriarchate delegation and President Petro Poroshenko, focusing on several disputed questions:

• Were the Constantinople delegation’s canonical conditions actually upheld?
• Why was the promised participation of UOC bishops apparently not secured?
• What happened during the reported private meeting involving Eustratios Zorya?
• Why does the chronicle provide only a partial account of the negotiations?
• What do subsequent developments in the OCU reveal about the 2018 process?

The article also discusses allegations of political pressure and corruption involving figures connected to the negotiations. These are presented as allegations and require independent verification.

The author argues that the December 14 meeting, portrayed in the chronicle as a diplomatic success, should instead be examined as a moment when Constantinople's negotiating position was substantially weakened.

Read the full analysis:

https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-decisive-defeat-disguised-as-victory-unmasking-the-december-14-kyiv-negotiations/

☦️ The 2018 Ukrainian church crisis continues to raise fundamental questions about canon law, ecclesiastical diplomacy, political pressure, and Orthodox unity.