On July 9, 2018 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at his working residence in Chistyy Lane in Moscow met with members of the delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, including Metropolitan Emmanuel of France and Metropolitan Bartholomew of Smyrna, the official site of the Russian Orthodox Church reports.
Taking part in the meeting on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church was Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, Deputy Speaker of the DECR.
During the conversation, issues related to maintaining inter-Orthodox unity were discussed.
This is all information currently available from the official source of the Russian Orthodox Church about the meeting about the provision of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.