Easter eggs near Bakhmut and Easter bread in trenches: how Ukrainian soldiers celebrate Easter – photo, video
Pravda Ukraine
Ukrainians celebrate their third Easter in the midst of the full-fledged war. The soldiers make sure to adhere to Easter traditions.
The 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade soldiers, who are carrying out combat missions near Bakhmut, demonstrated the process of making traditional Easter eggs at the front.
“I hope all the guys will come home safe and sound and will paint Easter eggs with their families and children and teach this craft to our next generations,” said one of the soldiers.
A military chaplain blessed bundles of homemade goods donated to Lviv paratroopers from the west of Ukraine. He stated that this allowed the soldiers to briefly escape from the reality of daily combat, mentally return home, and experience the Feast of Resurrection.
“Even being far from families and home, Galician paratroopers adhere to Easter traditions. It is not the first year that the soldiers find time to bless Easter cakes and Easter baskets in between combat missions.
Traditions and faith in the turbulent present give the defenders of Ukraine hope for victory and a peaceful future,” the brigade reports on social media.
On the eve of Easter, paratroopers painted Easter eggs and delivered them from the Bakhmut front to the Garrison Church of Peter and Paul in Lviv.
The 63rd Mechanised Brigade showed themselves painting eggs on the front lines. To accomplish this, the defenders collected onion husks, brushes and paint.
“We prepare Easter eggs in atypical conditions, but we put our soul into work,” the 63rd Mechanised Brigade wrote. ‘
The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade also showed touching photos of its soldiers celebrating Easter.
“Our Easter is at the front. The meaning of this holiday is the victory of life over death. For this, we continue to fight. We fight for the sake of those who are waiting for us at home from day to day,” wrote the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.
And the border guards showed the Ukrainians a video of a celebratory feast from the front lines: first they beat the Russians, and then the Easter eggs.
Also, Ukrainians were congratulated on Easter by Oleksii Biloshytskyi, the First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department.
“I congratulate all Christians of the Eastern rite on Easter! Faith gave David strength to overcome Goliath, and the faith of the Ukrainian people gives us strength to overcome enemies. May all prayers be heard and save us from evil. Christ has risen! Ukraine will win!” he wrote, showing the police celebrating Easter at the front.
Easter eggs made by the policemen
Frontline Easter bread
Last year, we showed how Ukrainian National Guard and Armed Forces servicemen commemorate Christ’s Resurrection and consecrate celebratory baskets.
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