Members and supporters of nationalistic parties, movements and organizations march downtown Kyiv to mark the 76th anniversary of the creation of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, October 14, 2018. The UPA actively fought for Ukrainian independence both against the Red Army and the Nazis during 1942 - 1953.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko waves during a mass prayer for Ukraine's independent church in central Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate says it will move forward with its decision to grant Ukrainian clerics independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. (Mykola Lazarenko/Presidential Press Service Pool Photo via AP)

Patriarch Filaret (L) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev's Patriarchy listens to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) during a gathering for a mass prayer in front of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Patriarch Filaret (L) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev's Patriarchy listens to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (C) during a gathering for a mass prayer in front of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) shaking hands with Patriarch Filaret (L) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev's Patriarchy during a gathering for a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) shaking hands with Patriarch Filaret (2nd R) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev's Patriarchy during a gathering for a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (C) delivers his speach during a gathering for a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

People attend a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

People attend a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Patriarch Filaret (L) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev's Patriarchy delivers his speach during a gathering for a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Patriarch Filaret (C) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev's Patriarchy delivers his speach during a gathering for a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

People attend a mass prayer in front of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - Thousands of people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to participate in massive thanksgiving prayer for granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainan nationalists and the Defender's Day. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Hundreds of beliviers attend a church service on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary led by Metropolitan Pavlo in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Hundreds of beliviers attend a church service on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary led by Metropolitan Pavlo in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Hundreds of beliviers attend a church service on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

A woman holds a giant Ukrainian flag during a rally in Kiev on October 2018, on the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, which is considered to be the symbolic day for Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukraine's Defender's Day. - Tens of thousands of far-right activists and veterans of the conflict between the government forces and Russia-backed separatists in the east of Ukraine walked trough the center of Kiev, waving red and black flags, a symbol of the nationalist movement, and blue and yellow Ukrainian flags. On October 14 nationalists mark the 76th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), for them a model of resistence. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

People rest in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Policemen walk in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Policemen stand guard in front of the central entrance of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Policemen stand guard next to the central entrance of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Metropolitan Onufriy (C), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, conducts a prayer for peace in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, the headquarter of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, in Kiev, on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Metropolitan Onufriy (C), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, conducts a prayer for peace in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, the headquarter of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, in Kiev, on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

Metropolitan Onufriy (L), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, conducts a prayer for peace in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, the headquarter of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, in Kiev, on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)

People attend a prayer led by Metropolitan Onufriy, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery which is the headquarter of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy in Kiev on October 14, 2018. - The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 11, 2018 said it had agreed to recognise the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move strongly desired by Kiev but which risks stoking new tensions with Moscow. (Photo by Volodymyr Shuvayev / AFP)