Just a year ago, Sophia Square in Kyiv was all about the big Christmas tree and thousands of lights spreading over the plaza. These final days of 2022, in the middle of a war that has ravaged the country for 10 months, a more modest tree stands there, its blue and yellow lights barely breaking the gloom of the square that is otherwise dark apart from the headlights of cars.
Kyiv's Mayor, Vitali Klitschko, announced the installation of the Christmas tree, saying it was going to be named the "Tree of Invincibility." Unlike previous years, when along with the tens of thousands of bulbs, Sophia Square was full of music and cheerful people, now the only noise on the plaza is the sound of a generator powering the lights of the 12-metre tree. On top of it, there is no star of Bethlehem's but instead a trident, Ukraine's symbol.
He said that every Dec. 19, his wife's birthday, they used to go to see the Christmas tree in the southern city of Kherson, not far from their home. Not this year, because their house, on the left bank of the Dnieper river, is occupied by Russian forces, and they had to flee in August to Kyiv.
No worries, they got billions
GrEat use of a fuel generator... while people are freezing... 🙄 Also a gReAt 🎯 for Russia to aim at while bombing... 🤪
With all the money they steal?...
That symbolism doesn't look ominous at all ...
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