📸 Ukrainians celebrate Orthodox Easter in wartime
A woman stands with her easter basket to be blessed by a priest during an Easter Sunday service outside a church in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty ImagesThe big picture:
Daniil Irbits, abbot and prior of St. George's Monastery, blesses Ukrainians who have fled with holy water in front of St. George's Russian Orthodox Monastery in Brandenburg, Germany, during the Orthodox Easter celebration. Photo: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images A Ukrainian soldier attends an Orthodox Easter service at the St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv on April 23. Photo: Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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