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[Katarina Mathernova 🇪🇺 @kmathernova]

Massive RU attack on Kyiv still going on.

Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra ablaze!

UNESCOHeritage site. Built in 1053. One of holiest places in Eastern Christianity.

Russians do not stop t anything. They must be stopped!

World, do not look away!

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

russia bombed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, setting one of the largest monasteries of Eastern Christianity on fire. Same crimes have been committed by the nazis and the soviets over 80 years ago. russia continues to adopt the customs of both.

Help protect Ukraine:
https://t.co/4Os08VprA0

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

As Director-General of UNESCO, Khaled El-Enany has not issued an official, standalone quote or statement directly condemning Russia. Will he do it now? Ever? Drop him a line @UNESCO_DG

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

💔 Kyiv. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. The Uspensky Cathedral is on fire.

russia is a terrorist state. Nothing else.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 More footage of the fire at the UNESCO-listed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Orthodox monastery, caused by a Russian attack on Ukraine's capital.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Kyiv right now 💔

Russia is a fucking cancer.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

🤬Russia has struck the grounds of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Ukraine’s most significant spiritual and cultural landmarks.

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

Last time, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra was bombed and burned by the Nazis. Now the Russians are doing the same.

And Russian Patriarch Kirill approved and blessed it.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I cannot believe what I’m witnessing in Kyiv tonight. Priests at the Kyiv Lavra one of the holiest Christian sites in Europe are rushing to save crucifixes, icons and sacred artefacts while Russia attacks the city.

This is what Moscow’s “Christian values” look like.

[Ukrinform @UKRINFORM]

Кількість загиблих у Києві зросла до чотирьох осіб

Також відомо про 23 поранених, серед них — дитина.

📷: Укрінформ

[Їne Back Їversen @IneBackIversen]

While russia preach about their faith & religion, the world must see what they practice and understand exactly how unholy & inhumane these creatures are. Churches are burning in Kyiv tonight after being hit by russian missiles. places built for shelter & prayers. This is russias true nature. #russiaisaterroriststate

[Rima 🇺🇦 The Red Queen of Donbas @RimaFellaria]

Lavra is burning……

The Lavra was founded in 1015. For more than a thousand years, it has watched our history unfold. Long before the Russian Empire, long before the Soviet Union, long before modern politics, it was already standing here.

Generations of Ukrainians walked through its gates. They prayed there, found refuge there, celebrated there, mourned there. Its walls witnessed the births, lives, and deaths of countless people who came before us.

The Lavra is also home to museums holding priceless pieces of our history: ancient manuscripts, icons, centuries-old books, works of art, archaeological treasures, and documents that tell the story of Ukraine across the ages.

Looking at these flames, I don’t just see a building burning.

I see a thousand years of history under attack.

I see another attempt to destroy the things that remind us who we are.

russia wants the world to believe this war is about territory. But every museum destroyed, every library burned, every church damaged tells a different story. This is also a war against memory, culture, and identity.

The people who built the Lavra more than a millennium ago are long gone. The generations that protected it through invasions, occupations, famines, and wars are gone too.

And yet the Lavra remained.

Tonight, seeing it burn is heartbreaking because some things belong to all of us. Not because of faith. Not because of politics. But because they are part of the story of who we are.

A thousand years of history should not have to survive russian missiles in the 21st century.

[CNN International @cnni]

A prominent Ukrainian monastery complex in the heart of Kyiv is on fire following a massive Russian attack that wounded more than a dozen people in the capital, according to local authorities. https://t.co/jSHA6YbOtN

[Kyrylo Loukerenko @K_Loukerenko]

More images of the Russian attack on Kyiv tonight:

1. Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in flames,
2. Burning Nova Post terminal,
3. Damaged residential tower,
4. Dovzhenko Film Studio.

More cruise missiles and drones are on their way, according to monitors' reports.

[Andrew Perpetua @AndrewPerpetua]

The Russian people shit on your Christian values. What are you going to do about it?

[Cyrille Amoursky @AmourskyCyrille]

🇺🇦‼️ RAPPELEZ CES IMAGES D’ÉGLISES EN FEU À CEUX QUI PRÉTENDENT QUE LA RUSSIE DÉFEND LES VALEURS CHRÉTIENNES !

La Laure de Kyiv, l’un des plus beaux monuments de Kyiv, est en feu.

Le Notre-Dame pour les Ukrainiens.

Les Russes viennent de la frapper.

NE PASSEZ PAS À CÔTÉ !

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Russian Shahed drones have attacked the world renowned Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Russia is a monsterous country that persecutes Christians in Russia and Ukraine.

Any so called “believer” who supports Russia doesn’t follow REAL Jesus

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

The number of Ukrainian cultural sites hit in Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv continues to rise, with the Mystetskyi Arsenal on fire this morning.

The complex is one of Ukraine’s flagship museums.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Russia just targeted and heavily damaged one of the most religiously significant sites in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Remember that the next time some pro-Russian simpleton blathers on about "Putin protecting Ukrainian Christians".