At the beginning of March 2014, Met. Onufry (Berezovsky), locum tenens Kyiv Metropolitan See of the UOC, appealed to Vladimir Putin and the Patriarch Kirill with a request to prevent bloodshed in Ukraine.

« After protracted internal political crisis and loss of life, a serious reason for unrest was the empowerment of you by the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation with the right use of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine , - it is said in its address to the President of Russia. - Totally a little separates us from sliding into the abyss, the exit from which will take more than one decade. <...> the Lord judged You lead a great country. Knowing you as an Orthodox Christian, I ask: stop human grief, prevent the division of our Ukrainian state and holy Church ."

Metropolitan Onuftiy also asked the patriarch to " elevate your vote on preserving the integrity of the territory of the Ukrainian state .”

Sources

The Vicar of the Kyiv Metropolitan Cathedral sent a letter to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill // Press service of the UOC. 2014. March 1.
IMPORTANT! Metropolitan Onufry, Locum Tenens of the UOC, sent a letter to the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin // Orthodoxy in Ukraine. 2014. March 2.

The locum tenens of the Kyiv department of the UOC addressed the President of the Russian Federation