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, in ...

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 Dec. 25.

The Christmas tree in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine, is a metal frame decorated with angels, patriotic slogans and the municipal emblems of towns retaken from the Russians by the ...

Ukrainian Orthodox Christians attended services on Sunday as the country for the first time celebrated Christmas on Dec. 25, after the government changed the date from Jan. 7, when most Orthodox ...

In Khmelnytskyi, in central Ukraine, a Christmas tree adorned with blue and yellow Ukrainian flags was set on top of debris from a Russian S-300 missile. And in Kharkiv, ...

Kateryna and Glib stand beside their unlit Christmas tree. Courtesy of Kateryna Balakay One mother in Kyiv, Yuliya Lebedyn, will buy gifts for her daughter Polina, 1 ½, but this won't be a normal ...

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 that has ravaged the ...

Hanna Marykot, from left, with her daughters, Sofiia, 20, and Iryna, 18, make the sign of the cross during an Orthodox Christmas Eve service at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in ...

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, in ...