Lyudmila Gaidai celebrated Easter last year with her children around her kitchen table, but Russian forces have shelled her town in east Ukraine so heavily, the church closed this year and everyone fled. | ManilaBulletin
Lyudmila Gaidai celebrated Easter last year with her children around her kitchen table, but Russian forces have shelled her town in east Ukraine so heavily, the church closed this year and everyone fled.
"Only God knows when it will," she told AFP journalists, each sentence punctuated by dull thuds of outgoing and incoming artillery around her neighbourhood in Chasiv Yar. Rescue workers nearby were still digging for civilians buried after a Russian missile barrage killed a dozen residents in a Soviet-era apartment bloc.
President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Ukraine's Orthodox believers saying "we celebrate the Easter holiday with unshakable faith in our victory." The Institute of Religious Freedom, an advocacy group, recently said nearly 500 religious buildings had been damaged during hostilities.
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