Easter eggs near Bakhmut and Easter bread in trenches: how Ukrainian soldiers celebrate Easter – photo, video

Ukrainians celebrate their third Easter in the midst of the full-fledged war. The soldiers make sure to adhere to Easter traditions. The 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade soldiers, who are carrying out combat missions near Bakhmut, demonstrated the process of making traditional Easter eggs at the front.

May 5, 2024 - 08:37
Easter eggs near Bakhmut and Easter bread in trenches: how Ukrainian soldiers celebrate Easter – photo, video

Ukrainians celebrate their third Easter in the midst of the full-fledged war. The soldiers make sure to adhere to Easter traditions.

The 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade soldiers, who are carrying out combat missions near Bakhmut, demonstrated the process of making traditional Easter eggs at the front.

"I hope all the guys will come home safe and sound and will paint Easter eggs with their families and children and teach this craft to our next generations," said one of the soldiers.

A military chaplain blessed bundles of homemade goods donated to Lviv paratroopers from the west of Ukraine. He stated that this allowed the soldiers to briefly escape from the reality of daily combat, mentally return home, and experience the Feast of Resurrection.

 
Galician paratroopers painted Easter eggs near Bakhmut
Photo: 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade

"Even being far from families and home, Galician paratroopers adhere to Easter traditions. It is not the first year that the soldiers find time to bless Easter cakes and Easter baskets in between combat missions.

Traditions and faith in the turbulent present give the defenders of Ukraine hope for victory and a peaceful future," the brigade reports on social media. 

 
These are the Easter eggs coloured by the soldiers of the 80th brigade
Photo: 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade
 
It is not the first time that soldiers find time for consecration of bread and Easter baskets
Photo: 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade

On the eve of Easter, paratroopers painted Easter eggs and delivered them from the Bakhmut front to the Garrison Church of Peter and Paul in Lviv.

 
In Lviv, you can come to the charity exhibition Easter Eggs from near Bakhmut and donate to buy a quad bike for the rescue of the injured.

The 63rd Mechanised Brigade showed themselves painting eggs on the front lines. To accomplish this, the defenders collected onion husks, brushes and paint.

"We prepare Easter eggs in atypical conditions, but we put our soul into work," the 63rd Mechanised Brigade wrote. '

The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade also showed touching photos of its soldiers celebrating Easter.

 
Soldiers of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade celebrate Easter in the trenches
Photo: 3rd Separate Assault Brigade

"Our Easter is at the front. The meaning of this holiday is the victory of life over death. For this, we continue to fight. We fight for the sake of those who are waiting for us at home from day to day," wrote the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.

 
Faces of those who fight for the victory of life over death
Photo: 3rd Separate Assault Brigade
 
Easter bread for the Ukrainian defenders 
Photo: 3rd Separate Assault Brigade

And the border guards showed the Ukrainians a video of a celebratory feast from the front lines: first they beat the Russians, and then the Easter eggs.

Also, Ukrainians were congratulated on Easter by Oleksii Biloshytskyi, the First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department.

"I congratulate all Christians of the Eastern rite on Easter! Faith gave David strength to overcome Goliath, and the faith of the Ukrainian people gives us strength to overcome enemies. May all prayers be heard and save us from evil. Christ has risen! Ukraine will win!" he wrote, showing the police celebrating Easter at the front.

 
Law enforcement officers in the Defence Forces do not forget about the holidays
Photo: Patrol Police
 
Easter eggs made by the policemen
Photo: Patrol Police
 

Easter eggs made by the policemen

Photo: Patrol Police
 

Frontline Easter bread

Photo: Patrol Police

Last year, we showed how Ukrainian National Guard and Armed Forces servicemen commemorate Christ's Resurrection and consecrate celebratory baskets.

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