An Orthodox Easter truce agreed by Russia and Ukraine came into force on Saturday afternoon but 38 minutes later we heard air raid sirens in Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine.
Since then, officials and military have recorded multiple ceasefire violations along the frontline, although no long-range missile or drone strikes.
The pause in fighting is supposed to last until Easter Monday to give people a much-needed rest, more than four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Easter should be a time of safety, a time of peace, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X, warning that Ukrainian forces would respond strictly in kind to any actions by Moscow.
Expectations and trust are very low here.
Shortly before the 16:00 (14:00 BST) start time for the truce, families brought baskets full of iced Easter cakes, painted eggs and sausage to St John the Theologian Church for a blessing.
They formed a line around the building to be doused with holy water by the parish priest.
The service is traditionally held just before midnight, with a procession around the church, but it was mid-afternoon this year because of the curfew.
St John's church itself was damaged at the start of the full-scale war and its windows on one side are still boarded up.
Maybe there will be a pause, one parishioner called Larisa suggested. But then Russia will only launch even more intense attacks. We've seen that before.
In the meantime, those on rotation have been dropping Easter cake and alcohol-free wine to their friends at the front by drone.
The village the unit uses for training was occupied in 2022 by Russian forces, then retaken by Ukraine.
The houses all around have been left as rubble.
No-one talks seriously about returning swathes of territory anymore, but Heorhiy thinks Ukraine can't afford to stop fighting until it can demand better conditions from its allies in negotiations with Russia.
We need real peace talks, the commander says.
But the peace process, launched by the US, has since stalled, with President Donald Trump's envoys diverted to their own war with Iran.
Ukraine is still pushing for strong security guarantees, too, from its allies: specifically, what the US would do if Russia were to invade again in the future.
Zelensky has offered to make this temporary truce, however flawed, into a lasting ceasefire, and then continue talks with Russia towards securing a proper peace.
But the Kremlin has already rejected that, saying its attacks will resume in full on Monday.
