"DNR" authorities say Donetsk and Horlivka eparchies to join ROC

The UOC Cathedral in Donetsk. Photo: Donetsk Eparchy’s website
14 July 2023 "head of the DNR" D. Pushilin said on his Telegram channel that the clergy of the two eparchies of the UOC – Donetsk and Mariupol and Horlivka and Slaviansk – allegedly expressed a desire to move to the Russian Orthodox Church.
"I sincerely support the decision of the clergy of the Donetsk and Mariupol, as well as Horlivka and Slaviansk eparchies, to join the Russian Orthodox Church. I am convinced that this was a difficult but the right step," Pushilin said.
According to him, he "gave the relevant orders to the DNR Ministry of Justice to provide all the necessary support and speed up the procedure for document processing" in accordance with Russian law.
On the official resources of the mentioned eparchies, there are no messages "about joining the Russian Orthodox Church".
As earlier reported, the ROC "accepted the Berdiansk Eparchy into direct subordination to the patriarch".
Read also

Metropolitan Onuphry: The Lord has exalted human nature to the heavens
The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in his homily for the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, emphasized the unique dignity of the human person in the Divine plan.

Bohdan: Document on UOC Primate’s exit from ROC Synod published on DESS website
Former head of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, Olena Bohdan, has called on fact-checkers to examine official UOC documents.
DESS ex-head: It’s absurd to seek UOC–ROC links in aggressor state documents
The former head of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience pointed out legal contradictions in the procedure for reviewing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Authorities in Cherkasy seize all UOC church land in the city
The authorities in Cherkasy have transferred land beneath three UOC churches to non-existent OCU communities. One of the churches has already been seized.
The Orthodox Church celebrates the Ascension of the Lord
Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven – one of the central events recorded in the Gospel.
At Kyiv Lavra, His Beatitude performs all-night vigil on Ascension eve
The Primate was concelebrated by UOC hierarchs and the clergy of the monastery.