Russia's hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas five times on April 16, the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters reports.
During the Easter Vigil service at the Intercession Cathedral in the occupied city of Sevastopol, the Gospel was read in Ukrainian, Russian and Greek, according to the Krym-realii online media outlet.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has congratulated the Ukrainians on Easter, honoring defenders of the country.
Orthodox Christians and Greek Catholics are celebrating the main Cristian holiday – the Resurrection of Christ today, April 16, the date that is calculated according to the lunisolar calendar.
Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Ertugrul Apakan has called on the parties to the Donbas conflict to cease fire immediately pending Easter holidays.
Ukrainians are sharing their heritage of the Easter celebration with local students and parishioners as St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church celebrates its 100th year and Canada celebrates its 150th birthday, according to The Sault Star, a daily newspaper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
The Trilateral Contact Group has agreed during a new round of the Minsk peace talks on Donbas that a full ceasefire will be declared from April 1, 2017, due to Orthodox Easter holidays, according to a Ukraine envoy's spokesperson.