With many of the usual traditions cancelled, Ukrainians are doing their best to keep the festive spirit alive
On Christmas Eve, as Ukrainian Catholics gathered to celebrate in the Latin Cathedral in the western city of Lviv, the electricity was off, the consequence of the recent waves of Russian missile strikes on the country’s power grid.
The family of Oksana Mykhailivna, 50, one of the congregants will be celebrating twice this year, because of a push to move away from the Orthodox calendar – which marks Christmas on 7 January – and because of other consequences of the war.
