In April 2022, around two months after Russia launched their full-scale invasion on Ukraine, UN Secretary-General António Guterres made an appeal for an Easter truce for Ukraine. "This year, Holy Week is being observed under the cloud of a war that represents the total negation of the Easter message," he said in a speech at the time.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized remarks from President Donald Trump, who called a deadly Russian ballistic missile attack on the major Ukrainian city of Sumy a "mistake." Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that Russia launched two ballistic missiles at the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy as residents attended church services marking Palm Sunday,