Ukrainian grandma bakes cake for Orthodox Easter amid rubble

A Ukrainian grandma baked an Orthodox Easter cake on Saturday amid the rubble of her home in a village near Chernihiv.

Olena Koptyl and 12 others have spent the last month sheltering from Russian attacks in the basement of her home.

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"The Easter holiday doesn't bring any joy," Koptyl said, while mixing the dough for an Easter cake with a traditional recipe passed down from her mother and grandmother.

Orthodox Easter takes place on Sunday this year.

Orthodox Christians in Ukraine, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria and other countries celebrate Orthodox Easter - or Pascha - by decorating eggs and baking a traditional cake - Kulich.

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia had refused to call a truce during the Orthodox Easter holiday.