Residents in Ukrainian folklore costumes sing carols inside a metro station in Kyiv on Christmas Day as an air raid alarm sounded to warn of further Russian air strikes.
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Ukrainian Christians typically celebrate Christmas in early January but many celebrated on December 25 after the main church's break from Moscow "Maybe our enemies would like us to sit down and cry over those killed, over what is happening now," Sobko said while holding back tears talking to people gathered at the metro station.One Kyiv resident, Yaroslav Melnychuk, 25, said of the gathering: "It's just incredible, it's really impossible to describe in words."The carollers huddled together in the Kyiv metro station.
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