Deadly Russian attacks fuel blaze at centuries-old monastery in Kyiv
Deadly Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight sparked an intense blaze at a 1,000-year-old monastery in Kyiv, one of the country’s most important religious and cultural landmarks.
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The attacks killed at least nine people — four in the capital, and five rescue workers in the northeastern city of Kharkiv who were responding to an earlier Russian strike, officials said early Monday.
But the sight of fire and smoke engulfing the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage site founded in 1051, drew significant and widespread condemnation.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “one of Russia’s most serious crimes against Christian culture to date.” He later visited the site.
