Ukraine war briefing: North Korean troops yet to make major impact on fighting, says Ukraine military intelligence
Nearly three years into the Russian invasion, Christmas celebrations across Ukraine are shrouded in grief. ?Not all of us are home, unfortunately. Sadly, not everyone has a home. And tragically, not everyone is still with us,? Zelenskyy said in an address. This will be the first Christmas that Lyubov spends without her son Taras Onyskiv, who died aged 32 in May while fighting off Russian troops on the eastern front. She brought a Christmas tree to her son?s grave in the Lychakiv cemetery in south-eastern Lviv, covered in a dusting of fresh snow. ?We?ll come and spend Christmas here,? she said, after wrapping fairy lights over the tombstone. Mariya Lun lost her son Yuri in 2022. ?We will bring Christmas porridge here on Christmas Eve,? Lun said. ?We will pray that it will be easy for him in heaven without us.? Zelenskyy signed a law in July 2023 to move the official Christmas Day holiday to 25 December, departing from the Russian Orthodox Church tradition of celebrating on 7 January.
