In the United States, almost a thousand religious leaders signed a Christmas petition for a ceasefire in Ukraine, according to the Washington Post..

The petition proposed a Christmas ceasefire between Christmas Eve and January 19, so that everyone has 12 days to celebrate Christmas..

“As people of faith and conscience, who believe in the sanctity of all life on this planet, we call for a Christmas truce in Ukraine,” the statement said.. “In the spirit of the 1914 armistice during World War I, we call on our government to take the lead in ending the war in Ukraine by supporting calls for a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement before the conflict escalates into a nuclear war that.

Some of the Orthodox celebrate Christmas on the Gregorian calendar on December 25, and someone on the Julian calendar on January 7.

Russia switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian in 1918, but most Orthodox churches continued to celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar.. In Russia and Ukraine, Christmas traditionally falls on January..

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However, this year the Ukrainian Orthodox Church allowed for the first time to celebrate Christmas also according to the Western calendar on December 25, which indicates a deepening gap with the traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church..

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last week that there were no talks between the two countries on a Christmas ceasefire..

" No one has received such an offer.. It's not on the agenda, Peskov told The Guardian.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from Ukraine by Christmas as a first step towards peace talks..

The most famous Christmas truce in history was reached on the Western Front of World War I in 1914.. The truce, which began in some sectors of the front at the initiative of the privates, lasted until Christmas.

Among other things, regional and central authorities were allowed to take the fallen from no man's land for burial.

There were no truces during Christmas after World War I (1914–1918), and no famous Christmas truce has been negotiated in the wars since..