Artists perform during Christmas celebrations at a position of servicemen of the Ukraine National Guard, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region on Dec. 24.

Christmas, like so much else in Ukraine these days, is tightly tangled up in the country’s war with Russia. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has taken the position that the Julian calendar used in ...

The Bolsheviks did away with Christmas altogether by making New Year’s the biggest Russian holiday of the year, and they took Christ out of Christmas. A status of Vladimir Lenin overlooks the ...

But the historically Russia-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church is keeping the Jan. 7 Christmas date. This church claims to have cut ties with Russia because of the war but many Ukrainians are sceptical.

Russia attacked Ukraine's energy system and some cities with cruise and ballistic missiles plus drones on Wednesday in an "inhuman" Christmas Day assault, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.