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It snows on kyiv on Easter Sunday morning.
The gray and low sky clings to the roofs, the air attack warning sirens have sounded like every night, and the avenues of the Ukrainian capital are almost empty of cars.
But the bays are filled for the Easter mass, in the Saint-Alexandre co-cathedral, on the heights of the historic center of kyiv, just above Maidan square.
The serious faces, the presence of a few camouflaged military uniforms, and the almost total absence of children, recall the war which has lasted for nearly two months.
Roman Catholics are the only people to celebrate Easter according to the Latin calendar.
The rest of Ukraine, like the entire Orthodox world, will celebrate the feast on April 24.
The small Catholic community of kyiv,
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