Tone, the fast-talking, quick-doodling music theorist, explained how the classic Ukrainian folk song “Shchedryk”, which ...

But there are few signs of Christmas in the city this year. Just a dusting of snow on deserted streets and skeletal buildings ...

This will be the first Christmas that Lyubov spends without her son Taras Onyskiv, who died aged 32 in May while fighting off Russian troops on the eastern front.

EXCLUSIVE: A British aid worker on the front line in Ukraine has celebrated Christmas Day under attack from Kremlin forces.