The Christmas tree set up annually in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine, is not just a Christmas tree. Over the years, it's taken on different meanings. And NPR's Julian Hayda reports that this year ...

Sponsor Message In central Kyiv, a big Christmas tree is decorated with blue and yellow ornaments, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. This is the first time Ukraine will celebrate the holiday on ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Just a year ago, Sophia Square in Kyiv was all about the big Christmas tree and thousands of lights spreading over the plaza. These final days of 2022, in the middle of a war ...

A Christmas tree stands next to the grave of a Ukrainian soldier at Lychakiv cemetery, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv [Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP] The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, a newly created ...

Under the Soviet Union, atheism was encouraged and Christmas traditions such as trees and gifts were shifted to New Year's Eve, which became the main holiday. Ukrainian Christmas traditions ...

The Tree of Invincibility can be heard before it can be seen. Ukraine celebrates Christmas as a national holiday on Dec. 25 — for churches observing the religious holiday on the Western calendar ...

Ukrainians decorate a Christmas tree near Independence Square in Kyiv In recent years many worshippers have joined the OCU but millions still follow the historically Russia-linked Ukrainian ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Just a year ago ...

Under the Christmas tree lay a tangle of wires charging mobile phones. There has been no electricity, running water or cell phone service in Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region ...

An image shared on X allegedly shows a recent picture of a Christmas tree decorated with Ukrainian flags displayed in Berlin, ...