'Ukrainian independence must be strong in all its elements.
And it will be like that.
Forever.
We're bringing it ourselves' – the Head of the State said on the evening of January 7, after the first Christmas service was held in the Ukrainian language in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in centuries.
For hundreds of years, the centre of Eastern Slavic Christianity – the Kyiv Lavra was under the control of the Russian Orthodox Church and January 7, 2023, was truly a historic day for Ukrainian identity, which has returned to the most important religious temple of Ukraine, again.