Anastasios, please note that Kontantinopol is trying to give the autocephaly not to the canonical Ukrainian church, but to a bunch of nationalist schismatics headed by Denisenko. This is the main problem for everyone.
It's a vicious circle.
The Ukrainian nationalists are calling for ecclesiastical autocephalous because they think that the Russian nationalists intervene in their church, and on the other hand the Russian nationalists do not want to give the Ukrainian nationalists autocephalous in order not to lose them from their control.
For an "external" observer, the problem is not Ukraine's autocephaly but the way it has been. For me both Moscow and Constantinople do not act for the sake of Faith but by executing commands from political pressures.
I think that if the Canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine had been free from Moscow to seek autocephalous, Constantinople would have given it and the matter would be resolved with Christ's love.
But, the main problem is political games.
There are no "Russian nationalists." There is a canonical Ukrainian Church (2/3 of believers), it stands for peace and harmony between our peoples, it does not require any autocephaly. The gathering of Mr. Denisenko (who is not even a Christian, so is under anathema) is the political project of the Ukrainian authorities, who hate Russia and support nationalism. They are supported by America, and now Constantinople. So yes, the main problem is political games, but the Russian Church does not participate in this, but on the contrary denounces and opposes
Ofcourse there is a Canonical Ukranian Church but there are also Russian nationalists who tries to control it. It is not possible to require any autocephaly because they are not allowed to do it. From what I have read the last days, there was such a proposal-threaten to the canonical archibishop of Kiev from the Ukranian president, but it was rejected. I think that it could have been the best solution for Ukaine. You think that it is possible for the archibishop of Crete to require autocephaly from the one who ordained him?! It is almost impossible to join the rest of Greek church's Synod! Ofcourse the schismatics are controled by the USA, they hate Russia and they are nationalists (heresy) and I dont like them. I like the Canonical and the Russian Church BUT there is a civil war and Russia dont let the Ukranian Church to be autocephalous as a diferent country and nation in the same way all the other counties and nations have their local autocephalous churches. I understand that if the politics finaly let them free it would open the way of all the former soviet countries to request their own autocephaly and this would remove any thought for the "3rd Rome".
I think that we have to choose between unity and autonomy. We cant be both. Its not right to vote for autonomy when we want to leave the mother church and unity when we are the mother and the daughter requests her autonomy from us.
The Russian church unfortunately participate in this because the problem is in an other country and an other nation and she was the first who stopped communion with the Ecumenical Patriarh the responsible for giving autoclaphy to a new nation.
100 years before half of Albania was Hellenic but Greece never had problem to give them autocephality as a new nation.
Give Ukrania the chance to follow their way in Orthodoxy and if the new bishops are heretics we will be the first (and the second if you want to be first) who will we check and restore to Orthodoxy.
I forgot to mention: we were anathemized as a nation some time between 1804-1815 for our rebellion against the Ottomans by the Ecumenical (Phanariote) Patriarchate. The same happened to Greeks in their rebellion which was just a continuation of our rebellion.
The Hellenes never stopped to rebel against the turks after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Our orthodox brothers Russians used our last (before 1821) rebelion of 1770 against the turks.
The Ecumenical Patriarch was forced to anathematize the rebelions because they threatened to follow massacres of civilians, which the Turks enjoy over time. But he secretly helped the Greek revolution, and that's why when the Turks learned it, they hunged him.
When you become a Patriarch in a Muslim country where your life and the lives of your flock are threatened, you can become more revolutionary everyday!