In 2024,
Ukrainians pray for peace and the swift arrival of the promised F-16s. 

10th anniversary of the beginning of the
Russian-Ukrainian war (February 20, 2014)
A collection of photographs and pictures that reflect how Ukraine and Ukrainians are surviving the invasion from Russia
​Ukraine celebrates first Christmas
on 25 December 2023
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Many Ukrainian Christians  celebrated Christmas on 25 December for the first time this year and as they did over 100 years ago

Ukraine has traditionally used the Julian calendar, also used by Russia, where Christmas falls on 7 January.
In a further shift from Russia, it is now marking Christmas according to the Western - or Gregorian - calendar, which it uses in everyday life.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky changed the law in July, saying it allowed Ukrainians to "abandon the Russian heritage" of celebrating Christmas in January.
In a Christmas message issued on Sunday evening, Mr Zelensky said all Ukrainians were now together.
"We all celebrate Christmas together. On the same date, as one big family, as one nation, as one united country."
In the capital Kyiv, married couple Lesia Shestakova, a Catholic, and Oleksandr Shestakov, who is Orthodox, are celebrating Christmas together.
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5th anniversary of granting Tomos to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (January 6, 2019)
The signing ceremony took place after a joint prayer service by Bartholomew and Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epiphanius in the Church of St. George on the territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul. Tomos is a patriarchal charter that officially confirms the canonical autocephalous status of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as one of the 15 local Orthodox churches in the world. This document is issued once and is the basis of the church. It is valid from the moment of its signing.


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The 450th anniversary of the publication by Ivan Fedorov in Lviv of "Apostola" - the first printed book and "Bukvar" - the first printed school textbook in Ukrainian lands (February 1574)

 (Fyodorov's tombstone in Lviv is inscribed with the phrase "renewed neglected printing".) In 1574 Fyodorov, with the help of his son and Hryn Ivanovych of Zabłudów published the second edition of the Apostolos with an autobiographical epilogue, and an Azbuka (Alphabet book).
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​In 1583 he visited Vienna and Kraków, where he showed the Emperor his latest inventions. He then returned to Lviv, where he died on December 16, 1583; he was buried there on the grounds of the Saint Onuphrius Monastery.