Kyiv residents woke on June 15 to find their city’s most revered religious monument in flames after Russia launched a massive drone and missile barrage on sites throughout Ukraine. It is the latest war damage inflicted on the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the monastery's turbulent, nearly 1,000-year history.
A blaze on June 15 amid Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine is the latest war wound inflicted on Kyiv's centuries-old Pechersk Lavra, the most iconic religious landmark in the Ukrainian capital.