The explanatory note attached to the law said its goal is to"abandon the Russian heritage," including that of"imposing the celebration of Christmas" on Jan. 7. It cited Ukrainians'"relentless, successful struggle for their identity" and"the desire of all Ukrainians to live their lives with their own traditions, holidays," fueled by Russia's 17-month-old aggressionLast year, some Ukrainians already observed Christmas on Dec.
Ukraine's religious landscape has fractured for years. There are two branches of Orthodox Christianity in the country, one aligned with the Russian church, even as it enjoys broad autonomy, the other completely independent of it. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the branch that is separate from the Russian church, announced earlier this year that it was switching to the Revised Julian calendar, which marks Christmas on Dec. 25.
Zelenskyy described the attack as one of Russia's"most vile and cruel crimes" in a video statement Saturday. Russian forces on Friday struck the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro and pounded, Staromaiorske, a key village in the southeast that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing two missiles at southern Russia and wounding 20 people.
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