But there are few signs of Christmas in the city this year. Just a dusting of snow on deserted streets and skeletal buildings ...

It’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries – the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” -- ...

Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is the birthplace of one of the world's favourite carols, the Carol of the Bells. But there are few signs of Christmas in the city this year. Just a dusting of snow on ...

As Russian troops near the city of Pokrovsk, where a beloved Ukrainian composer wrote his most famous song — now known worldwide as "Carol of the Bells" — Ukrainians seek to safeguard his legacy.

Over a century ago, a Ukrainian choirmaster wrote what became known as the “Carol of the Bells.” Our writer sought out its birthplace in Pokrovsk.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia made a "conscious choice" by launching a major attack on his country's ...

This will be the first Christmas that Lyubov spends without her son Taras Onyskiv, who died aged 32 in May while fighting off Russian troops on the eastern front.

Tone explained how the classic Ukrainian folk song "Shchedryk" was turned into the beloved Christmas song "Carol of the Bells ...

There was continued fighting in Ukraine until 1920 ... In 1936, he reimagined “Shchedryk” as a Christmas carol, rewriting the lyrics as the “Carol of the Bells” we know today.

In his Christmas address to Ukrainians on 24 December, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recalled that it was in the city of ...