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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukraine marked its 3rd Easter astatine war, Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated successful Ukraine’s eastbound wherever nan situation connected nan beforehand statement is worsening. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians successful an Easter reside to beryllium agreed successful dream and called God an “ally” successful nan warfare pinch Russia.
Ukraine’s aerial unit said Sunday that Russia had launched 24 Shahed drones, of which 23 had been changeable down by aerial defenses.
Six people, including a child, were wounded successful a drone onslaught successful nan eastbound Kharkiv region, location Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.
Fires collapsed retired erstwhile debris from drones that were changeable down fell connected buildings successful nan neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region. No casualties were reported.
Officials successful Kyiv urged residents to travel Orthodox Easter services online owed to information concerns. Serhiy Popko, caput of nan Kyiv metropolis administration, warned that “even connected specified agleam days of celebration, we tin expect evil deeds from nan aggressor.”
Zelenskyy called connected Ukrainians to merge successful dream for each different and soldiers connected nan beforehand line.
In a video filmed successful beforehand of Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, wearing a accepted Vyshyvanka embroidered shirt, Zelenskyy said that God “has a chevron pinch nan Ukrainian emblem connected his shoulder.” With “such an ally,” Zelenskyy said, “life will decidedly triumph complete death.”
A mostly of Ukrainians place arsenic Orthodox Christians, though nan religion is divided. Many beryllium to nan independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church was loyal to nan patriarch successful Moscow until splitting from Russia aft nan 2022 penetration and is viewed pinch suspicion by galore Ukrainians.
In Moscow, worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ nan Savior Cathedral precocious Saturday for a nighttime Easter work led by Patriarch Kirill, caput of nan Russian Orthodox Church and an outspoken protagonist of nan Kremlin.
Eastern Orthodox Christians usually observe Easter later than Catholic and Protestant churches, because they usage a different method of calculating nan day for nan beatified time that marks Christ’s resurrection.
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