{"id":351368,"date":"2026-06-15T20:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=351368"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:59:03","slug":"russian-missile-strikes-kill-11-in-ukraine-damage-religious-landmark-officials-say-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/russian-missile-strikes-kill-11-in-ukraine-damage-religious-landmark-officials-say-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian missile strikes kill 11 in Ukraine, damage religious landmark, officials say &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Russia fired tons of of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine\u2019s biggest cities in an overnight barrage that killed at the very least 11 people and set fire to a world-renowned religious landmark,\u00a0Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on the capital of Kyiv, and the second-largest city of Kharkiv, got here after Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin\u00a0spoke individually by phone\u00a0with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday. The exchange suggests Washington hasn\u2019t given up on its\u00a0diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting\u00a0that followed\u00a0Moscow\u2019s all-out invasion of its neighbour in February 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_miniplayer\">\n<section id=\"miniplayer_6a3010eb056aa-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 4 videos.\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__featured\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"true\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"miniplayer_6a3010eb056aa\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"11904257\" data-displayinline-ratio=\"16:9\" 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tabindex=\"-1\"><\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- video stream item --><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The war in Ukraine can be set to feature in talks Tuesday by\u00a0G7 leaders at a summit in France. Zelenskyy and Trump are as a consequence of attend, with the Ukrainian leader pushing his country\u2019s plight while the\u00a0Iran war\u00a0diverts international attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is how Russia shows the world its intention to proceed the war,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a post on X, referring to the overnight attack on civilian sites that included the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, an Eleventh-century monastery complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is rather essential that there be a response from the G7 countries \u2026 and that this response be decisive and substantive; more pressure on the aggressor and more support for Ukraine\u2019s air defence, especially anti-ballistic capabilities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Children among the many wounded in Kyiv<\/h2>\n<p>Zelenskyy said the Russian strikes killed 11 civilians and emergency employees and wounded 53 across Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Five were killed in Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, where at the very least 30 others were also wounded, including two children aged 5 and 6, in keeping with Tymur Tkachenko, head of the town\u2019s Military Administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox because it happens so you will not miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A series of powerful explosions were heard across Kyiv, with a wave of ballistic missiles followed by Shahed drones as many individuals sought shelter underground. Clouds of black smoke drifted over the town.<\/p>\n<p>Five strikes hit civilian sites in the town\u2019s Shevchenkivskyi district in under half-hour, Tkachenko said, including a 25-story apartment constructing, while a market and a food market caught fire. Within the Obolonskyi district, a nine-story residential constructing took a direct hit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tFirefighters use an aerial platform to extinguish a fireplace on the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Cultural, Art and Museum Complex, brought on by a large Russian combined attack, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 15, 2026.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMarianna Kotyk\/Ukrinform via ZUMA Press Wire\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said the strikes targeted defence and industrial facilities in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro, including enterprises and workshops producing components for long-range drones and cruise missiles. It said that a workshop producing medium- and long-range drones situated on the premises of the Dovzhenko film studios in Kyiv was among the many targets hit.<\/p>\n<p>Russia also claimed to have hit Kyiv\u2019s Radar plant, which it said makes drone components, and the Mayak plant that it said makes Ukraine\u2019s Flamingo long-range cruise missiles. Military conscription offices in Kyiv were also struck, it said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate information concerning the Eleventh person killed within the attacks.<\/p>\n<h2>Religious site damaged in attack<\/h2>\n<p>In Kyiv, smoke billowed across the golden domes of the Dormition Cathedral within the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a revered religious landmark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Its roof caught fire in the course of the attack, said Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. He condemned the strike as one other Russian crime \u201cagainst humanity, against history, against Christianity,\u201d and appealed for prayers to avoid wasting the positioning.<\/p>\n<p>The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, also generally known as the\u00a0Monastery of the Caves, is a sprawling complex of monasteries and churches, including some underground, built between the Eleventh and nineteenth centuries. Among the churches on the UNESCO-listed World Heritage site are connected by a labyrinthine complex of caves spanning greater than 600 meters (2,000 feet).<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tA firefighter works on the roof of the Dormition Cathedral on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra that caught fire during a large Russian combined attack, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 15, 2026.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMarianna Kotyk\/Ukrinform via ZUMA Press Wire\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zelenskyy said the damage was brought on by two Russian drones and called the attack Moscow\u2019s \u201cbiggest crime yet against Christian culture.\u201d He visited the scene with Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko and other government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The cathedral, churches and other buildings overlook the Dnieper River and have been a pilgrimage site for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the attack was the \u201cequivalent, for us French, of a bombing of Notre Dame\u201d in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The cathedral, churches and other buildings overlook the Dnieper River and have been a pilgrimage site for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the attack was the \u201cequivalent, for us French, of a bombing of Notre Dame\u201d in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s National Commission for UNESCO, which coordinates the country\u2019s cooperation with the U.N. educational, scientific and cultural body, urged the international community to step up pressure on Moscow to stop its invasion and to throw it out of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy destroying Ukraine\u2019s cultural heritage, (Russia) seeks to erase historical memory and inflicts damage upon the heritage of all humankind,\u201d the commission said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry claimed, without offering evidence, that the complex was hit by one in every of Ukraine\u2019s U.S.-made Patriot air defence missiles, saying that it might need veered off track as a consequence of its age.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia fires greater than 600 drones at Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russia launched 70 missiles and 611 drones overnight, primarily targeting Kyiv, while also striking the cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>The military said air defences intercepted or electronically suppressed 632 aerial targets, including 50 missiles and 582 drones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Preliminary data showed 20 ballistic missiles and 27 attack drones hit 42 locations across the country, while debris from intercepted drones fell at 12 sites.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said air defences downed 123 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia fired tons of of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine\u2019s biggest cities in an overnight barrage that killed at the very least 11 people and set fire to a world-renowned religious landmark,\u00a0Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials said Monday. 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