Russian rockets kill two as rivals mark Orthodox Easter

A Russia n rocket strike on Ukraine 's eastern Donetsk region killed two people and a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv injured at least six, officials have said."In Pokrovsk, rocket attacks killed two people and damaged a house," Vadim Filashkin, Ukraine 's governor of the eastern Donetsk region, said in a post on Telegram.

In Russia and Ukraine, leaders have used religion and the church institution to rally society behind the war effort. In Russia, President Vladimir Putin did not explicitly mention the war - that Russia calls a"special military operation" - in his Easter message.

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