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Life over Death<\/strong>
Last week the western Christian rite believers celebrated Easter. The Eater in the forthcoming week is celebrated by Orthodox rites. Easter has always been a very bright holiday. Even though it\u2019s firstly addressed for religious one, every human knows the idea of this ancient Bible telling \u2013 the victory of life over death. For Ukrainians now, this story \u2013 about a life under constant threat of death and destruction, which are very close \u2013 is real and obvious. And it is important for us that life and hope win in this modern, very painful story of Ukrainians and all mankind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A shelter. \u201cThe air alarm is stopped\u201d. Author: Oleksandr Grekhov \/ <\/em>Oleksandr Grekhov Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From our cities<\/strong>
At the beginning of this week, more than 900 bodies of civilians were found in Kyiv region. Most of them had gunshot wounds. Thus, in the Bucha community during the occupation, Russian troops killed more than 400 people. Police find the bodies of murdered Ukrainians both on the streets of villages and towns and in temporary burials. After exhumation and identification, the bodies of the dead can be buried. Cases of abuses and killing of civilians have been reported in other regions of Ukraine that were occupied by Russian troops and have now been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lines of freshly-dug graves for civilians murdered by russian militaries, Irpin \/ David Guttenfelder, The New York Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stated the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine on February 24 as genocide of the Ukrainian people. And today, on April 21, the Estonian Parliament Riigikogu adopted a Statement<\/a> on Russia\u2019s war crimes and genocide in Ukraine. Estonia became the first country to make such a decision. In addition, in 1993, the Estonian parliament was the first in the world to recognize the Holodomor in Ukraine, committed by the Stalinist regime, as genocide of the Ukrainian people. Also the Latvian Saeima adopts statement on Russia\u2019s aggression and war crimes in Ukraine, recognising it as genocide against the Ukrainian people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLatvia and its people have shown their unwavering support, loyalty, and solidarity with Ukraine and its people. By adopting this Statement in a unanimous vote, we continue to do so. Moreover, we must not forget the most important priority at this time, namely, protecting the people of Ukraine from further crimes against humanity and helping Ukraine free its land from occupants,\u201d noted Rihards Kols<\/a>, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima, after the adoption of the Statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mykhailo Dzhos, <\/em>Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The entire territory of Ukraine remains under threat. The shelling continues in Mykolayiv, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, and Lviv\u2026 The situation in Luhansk and Donetsk regions is difficult. We observe a real tragedy in Mariupol in the Donetsk region, which has been under siege by Russian troops since early March 2022. The city is destroyed, bombed, burned down. Nevertheless, there remain about 100,000 civilians, children, women and the elderly. Some are under rubble, in basements, as well as on the territory of the Azovstal plant. There are hundreds of dead, mass graves revealed in Manhush near Mariupol, the Russian occupiers are using mobile crematoria to hide traces of their crimes. Meanwhile, Russia rejects Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General\u2019s proposal for humanitarian \u201csilence\u201d in Ukraine for Easter to organize humanitarian corridors and evacuate civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiding from Russian bombs, a local resident Vanda Obiedkova died in Mariupol, who survived the Nazi occupation, stated<\/a> in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum Twitter. \u201cMama didn\u2019t deserve such a death,\u201d says Obiedkova\u2019s daughter, Larissa, through tears, just hours after arriving with her family in a safe location. Read the full story of Mrs Obiedkova family: https:\/\/bit.ly\/37sdjGt<\/a>. Earlier in March, 96-year-old Boris Romanchenko, who managed to survive World War II in several Nazi concentration camps, died from shelling in Kharkiv. This and many other stories shows the cyclical nature of life and how quickly generations forget about the traumas and cruelty of the past – so that someone has to survive this hell again and again during their whole lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chernihiv \/ Photo: Oleksandra Naberezhna, <\/em>UkrInform Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian contemporary art and culture in a world <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n