Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Pokrovsk, birthplace of 'Carol of the Bells', is being destroyed by Russian fire.
That’s where Father Oleksandr built his church while working night shifts in the mines. But today, his city, and his church, are in ruins. https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/russia-incinerates-birthplace-of
@timkmak Russians doing russian things.
They didn’t get nicknamed ’orcs’ for nothing.
@timkmak
The funny thing is: Shchedryk is not a Christmas but a New Year's Eve song (Shchedryj vechir, "generous evening" which is 31 December). Only in North America it got rebranded into a Christmas song since there was no similar singing tradition on New Year's Eve.
Fun fact #2: Carol of the Bells based on Shchedryk is a thing only in North America, maybe in Great Britain too (since their popular culture is strongly influenced by US), but it is hardly known in continental Europe.
Never forget: Russia is a terrorist state.
“[The enemy] is destroying the home where such a great song was created that inspires everyone…Yes, it was born in Pokrovsk,” priest Oleksandr Soldatenko said of one of the world’s most well-known Christmas carols.
#Russians have surrounded it from three sides, infiltrating the city center and capturing it district by district.
This year, the city of the carol will likely mark its last #Christmas under Ukrainian flags before it is completely reduced to ashes.
The birthplace of that song, he said, is now “soaked in blood.”
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