{"id":351169,"date":"2026-06-15T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=351169"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:50:12","slug":"world-heritage-site-up-in-flames-after-putin-launches-overnight-onslaught-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/world-heritage-site-up-in-flames-after-putin-launches-overnight-onslaught-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"World heritage site up in flames after Putin launches overnight onslaught | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The golden-domed cathedral was founded in 1051 (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

4 people were killed in a World Heritage site in Kyiv after Vladimir Putin launched a wave of missiles in an enormous aerial attack.<\/p>\n

Five rescuers were killed, and 20 were injured after strikes set apartment buildings ablaze and sparked a hearth at one in every of the country\u2019s most important religious landmarks.<\/p>\n

Damage on the\u00a0Kyiv-Pechersk\u00a0Lavra, a monastery, was substantial, and a serious fire had broken out, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the\u00a0Kyiv\u00a0City Military Administration, said.<\/p>\n

He accused Russia of deliberately striking \u2018the guts of one in every of the biggest Christian shrines\u2019.<\/p>\n

The rescuers were killed in Kharkiv by a second Russian strike as they fought a blaze attributable to an earlier attack, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said. <\/p>\n

The central Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery was founded in 1051 and is a recognisable landmark in Kyiv, with its domed gold cathedrals.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said: \u2018A brutal assault on our people \u200band our heritage. That is the true face of Russia\u2019s Orthodox values.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Lavra was previously damaged during World War Two in an enormous explosion on November 3, 1941, when Kyiv was under German occupation.<\/p>\n

The attacks last night are the worst since earlier in June, when a missile attack killed almost two dozen Ukrainians and wounded 100 others.<\/p>\n

Ukraine said it’s working with UNESCO to make sure \u2018immediate and adequate responses to this state barbarism\u2019.<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s forces appeared to focus on key cultural sites of their latest onslaught. Also struck was the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio, which holds the biggest and oldest costume collection in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kharkiv Art Museum and opera theatre were hit, as was the historic House of Organ and Chamber Music in Dnipro.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Olena Kurylo, 56, from Kharkiv, said today: \u2018The Russians are striking out of some sort of impotence, hitting museums, theatres, churches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Where is their \u2018God is with us\u2019 now? Striking the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra?\u00a0Where is God with them?\u00a0They’ve the devil with them, Devil! May all of them burn in hell.\u2019<\/p>\n

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