Kyiv plans to erect Christmas trees, minus lights, throughout the battered city in a defiant display of holiday spirit as the capital area's millions of residents suffer through blackouts due to Russian attacks, officials said.
This photograph taken on November 24, 2022, shows the Flower Clock covered in snow and light coming from a window on a foggy night in Kyiv, as Ukraine battled to get water and power to millions of people cut off after Russia launched dozens of cruise missiles that battered the country's already crippled electricity grid. Bulent Kilic/ AFP
"No one is going to cancel the New Year and Christmas, and the atmosphere of the New Year should be there," Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told the RBC-Ukraine news agency in an interview. "We cannot allow Putin to steal our Christmas." "There will be the New Year's-Christmas tree and it will be the most energy-responsible, but still festive for all of us," Kovalenko said.
"Christmas trees will be installed especially to remind our children of the New Year's mood," Klitschko said. "You know, I don't want to take Santa Claus away from the children."
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