Kyiv’s main concert hall, Palatz Ukraina, was also significantly damaged by Russian missiles and drones. They really went after culture. https://t.co/DqjRzMyy2U
Another piece of Ukraine’s cultural heritage targeted by Russia overnight is Kyiv’s Mystetski Arsenal, one of the country’s main contemporary art exhibition spaces that also houses its main literary festival. The building dates back to 1803. The war is not about a piece of land in Donbas. It is about exterminating Ukrainians as a separate people with their own culture, their own past and therefore their own future.
We must be morally prepared for the fact that Russia will deliberately try to destroy Ukraine's many ancient monuments and its most important sites of cultural and historical heritage.
Today, they desecrated the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra with their violence. They struck the Dovzhenko Film Studio. The Mystetskyi Arsenal art center was damaged, as was a church in Dnipro.
Saint Sophia of Kyiv is in danger. So are the ancient landmarks of Kyiv, the thousand-year-old churches of Chernihiv, the museums of the Zaporizhian Sich, and the historic treasures of Lviv.
Since fascist Russia is somehow unable to defeat the Ukrainian army, and its missile terror against civilians is failing to produce results, the mighty and invincible Russia will now bravely wage war against historic churches with even greater ferocity.
Every day more Russian terrorist crimes against Ukrainian civilians. For these terrible crimes, Putin and other responsible criminals must be punished just like the fascists in Nuremberg in 1946
💔 Kyiv looks like after an apocalypse. This is a capital in the heart of Europe, home to over 3 million people.
The world continues to watch russian terror, pretending we don’t exist.
5 DSNS first responders attempting to save lives were killed in Kharkiv due to Russian double strikes.
5 more injured.
We lost our guardian angels today.
Because of the fucking evil satanic rotting corpse of an empire called russia.
Tragedy of losing the very best of humanity.
Nineteen russian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and Shahed drones are raining down on Kyiv right now. This is horrific.
The UNESCO-listed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra has been targeted. A thousand years of Ukrainian history, faith, and culture are once again under attempted destruction.
Why would people who claim to be Christians ever align with russia?
Photo: Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
I am fucking crying.
It's nearly a thousand years old...
Profound historical monument of Kyivan Rus and one of the most significant Orthodox monasteries in the world.
There is no words for this.
Right now, as Russians continue to strike #Kyiv with over a dozen of ballistic missiles, the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.
A brutal assault on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values.
Russians attacked the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra with ballistic missiles. One of Ukraine's oldest churches, 1,000 years old, is on fire.
Barbarians and terrorists