{"id":38519,"date":"2025-04-21T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38519\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:20:09","slug":"there-was-easter-but-no-truce-on-ukraines-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38519\/","title":{"rendered":"There was Easter but no truce on Ukraine\u2019s frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Kramatorsk, Donetsk region<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">In a wooden Greek-Catholic church on the frontline of a warzone, encircled by red tulips and military vehicles, the priest\u2019s sermon is woven through with the war \u2013 just like the soldiers\u2019 Easter baskets, packed not only with paska bread, pysanky and sausages, but also with drones, waiting to be blessed. \u2018This drone will be at work tonight \u2013 enforcing the ceasefire,\u2019 a soldier whispers to me, smiling.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-a6bb53c1-2512-459d-9cf1-670c72953f88\">The priest looks over a hundred soldiers in front of him, the church so packed that some must listen from the outside, and says that Ukraine will defeat evil, just as Jesus did. \u2018The enemy is killing Him in our men and women, they are torturing Him in captivity, our mothers wash their faces with His tears,\u2019 he says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Photo-1.jpeg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Photo-1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-a928ba69-9e32-4cec-9109-a4db4dee43b0\">This Easter Sunday, for the first time in months, not a single air raid alert sounded in Kramatorsk. Vladimir Putin\u2019s 30-hour \u2018truce\u2019, which supposedly meant a halt to all hostilities in Ukraine, held only away from the frontline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kramatorsk, Donetsk region In a wooden Greek-Catholic church on the frontline of a warzone, encircled by red tulips&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[3751,2000,299,18041,2046,332,657,21151],"class_list":{"0":"post-38519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-easter","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-peace","12":"tag-putin","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114376397645542094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}