Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv was ringed by hundreds of worshippers with baskets to be blessed.
Outside the cathedral, a soldier who gave only his first name, Mykhailo, used his helmet as an Easter basket.
With the Orthodox church split by the tensions between Russia and Ukraine, some worshippers hoped the holy day could inspire gestures of peacemaking.
We cannot forget how we lived.” She and 12 others spent a month sheltering from Russian soldiers in the basement of her home before the soldiers withdrew.