Ukraine to celebrate Christmas with 'civilized world, but not Moscow'
Al Mayadeen English
4 min readThe Ukrainian Parliament approves a bill to change Christmas from January 7 to December 25 to "abandon [...] the Russian heritage."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, stands next to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP)
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