The Orthodox Christmas season has brought little joy to most Ukrainians as the war with Russia drags into its 11th month
Yana Avramova tried her best to get into the Christmas spirit on Friday even as tears welled up in her eyes as she thought about her husband in Odesa.
Yana Avramova, middle, and her two teenage children, who all recently arrived from Odesa, join other refugees at Ukrainian House in Przemysl, Poland, on Friday for a traditional Orthodox Christmas Eve dinner.Volunteers at the centre did their best to organize a Christmas Eve celebration. They decorated the auditorium with two Christmas trees, paper snowflakes and blinking lights.
In Ukraine, a 36-hour Christmas ceasefire announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this weekwho said on Friday that the fighting hadn’t stopped. Air raid sirens sounded across much of the country and Luhansk’s governor, Serhiy Haidai, said Russian troops opened fire 14 times in the region.
Above, Orthodox priest Jerzy Mokrauz breaks wishing bread with a woman. A group of around 100 Ukrainian refugees gathered Friday at Ukrainian House in Przemysl, Poland, for a traditional Orthodox Christmas Eve dinner.Anna Koval got her whole family in Lviv to change dates for the first time this year.
Tatiana Nakonieczna, a volunteer at Ukrainian House, said the organization debated whether to hold the Christmas Eve dinner on Friday. She and her family celebrated Christmas on Dec. 25 with a group of Ukrainian refugees she has been supporting. However, her Orthodox church in Przemysl has stuck with Jan. 7. “We are actually quite confused,” she said Friday morning as she helped organize the dinner. “We don’t know how to act.
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