 For the first time during his service as an Orthodox military chaplain, priest Michael I will mark Christmas on December 25th alongside soldiers from his Air Assault Brigade on Ukraine's Eastern Front. The chaplain from Ukraine's 95th Air Assault Brigade said the country's shift to a new calendar that would see Christmas celebrated on December 25th this year rather than January 7th signals another move to distance from Russia, which sticks to the Orthodox Christmas Day near the front line of Russia's Invasion, which is nearing its two-year mark and shows no signs of abating, soldiers were also preparing to make the switch to December 25.On a recent Sunday morning, Ukrainian troops crammed into a small makeshift church for a liturgy, singing hymns as incense wafting in the air, priest Michael I said he expected troops to be in higher spirits as they celebrated. This is not an anti-Russian propaganda, but it is important for the guys that we have our own church and we celebrate it with the locals around the world. This year I will celebrate my family, I plan on December 25th. This is how it used to be before we were tied to December 7th, this January. I will definitely celebrate it in a copy on December 25th and 7th. We have not yet understood the Orthodox Christmas until the end of last year, but this year we have already reached the nomination and the whole world, we celebrate it on December 25th and it is more than a poor thing, there will be no such separations. This is the celebration of the old calendar today, the Orthodox Church. We will celebrate it in a copy on December 25th. The feast is not performed, we understand that the feast is not celebrated, we understand that the feast is not celebrated, this is another day of war, because our guys will defend themselves and we will do it as always, but on a moral, emotional or spiritual level, this day will be celebrated, this day will be celebrated in a good atmosphere, we will celebrate it in the evening.