and moscow have been steadily worse ningbo ukraine's new national church make things even worse now. good afternoon on your well it seems like those relations couldn't get much worse short of a full scale military conflict but this officer doesn't help we've had some furious reactions from moscow talking about schism i think the really interesting thing now will be to see how it plays out how ukraine treats the moscow patriarchy the russian church which still is the biggest single confession here in ukraine present said that they would not in any way. to clamp down on the church's rights to hold its to have its congregations here but that they would support priests who wanted to transfer to the new ukrainian church i think that will be the thing that we very closely watch in moscow any kind of conflict over individual congregations or monasteries being transferred could really risk stoking for the tensions as you say russia's been extremely critical it's called this a campaign ploy by the ukrainian president who's facing a difficult reelection in march is it mainly parish and co his