The roof of the historic Cathedral of the Dormition, at the historic thousand-year-old Kiev-Pechersk Lavra holy site, caught fire overnight during Russia’s latest attack on Kiev. Fortunately, there was no damage to the interior.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrei Sybiha immediately indicted Moscow: “By striking the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of the greatest holy sites of Christianity, Putin has forever put his name on the list of history’s worst barbarians. He should be damned for centuries.”
As with Bucha, the Zaporozhye nuclear plant et al, Kiev has repeatedly sounded the alarm at timely occasions, when it is decision time in the West whether to keep the regime of acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in power and the ‘forever war’ against Russia going. While a competent investigation needs to occur as to the fire, it should be noted that it was Zelenskyy who deployed force in 2023 to expel the monks from their centuries-old monastery, and that the specific building in question is not part of the original, having been built in 1998-2000.
