Displace Ukrainians gather in churches across Australia to mark Orthodox Easter, but after this year will use the holiday to distance themselves from Russia.
The community gathered in churches across Australia on Sunday to mark the resurrection of Christ."As a deliberate decision to separate ourselves even further from Russia and Moscow, it's been decided to adopt the Julian calendar," the Ukranian Council of NSW Vice-President Andrew Mencinsky said.
"They needed to grow up. They needed to study. They needed to have a good education, and I think they needed a good life," Ms Kaletska said."It's very hard, because the war is going and not stopping. You worry about everything," she explained.Marta Artemenko and her 16-year-old daughter left their home in Kyiv when war broke out in February 2022.
Ms Artemenko is studying a Masters of Business, which she plans to put into practise when the war eventually ends.
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