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The early morning blessing of the baskets on Ukrainian Orthodox Easter, which in alignment with the Julian calendar falls on April 24 this year, has a celebratory feel to it — but the stress and anxiety of the war raging in Ukraine looms in the background.
Long queues formed outside the cathedral as worshippers carrying baskets of ornately painted Easter eggs.
Local 3 News first brought you a story about a local restaurant owner who was trying to sell Ukrainian Easter loaves of bread to benefit Ukrainian refugees. Now, they said
After they uprooted their lives when war broke in Ukraine, Svitlana Solovey was grateful to be spending Easter this year with her family in Melbourne’s north.
"I cannot fathom what it’s like to be in Ukraine right now. But some spring day in the future, we hope to reunite with our friends at a cafe in Kyiv."