{"id":5338,"date":"2026-06-15T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/5338\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:44:08","slug":"ukraine-condemns-brutal-russian-assault-after-unesco-heritage-kyiv-pechersk-lavra-is-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/5338\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine condemns \u2018brutal\u2019 Russian assault after Unesco heritage Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale Russian attack on <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ukraine?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> killed five rescuers in Kharkiv and wounded at least 20 people in the capital Kyiv on Monday as strikes set flat buildings ablaze and sparked a fire at one of the country\u2019s most significant religious landmarks.The rescuers were killed in Kharkiv by a second <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/russia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russian<\/a> strike as they fought a blaze caused by an earlier attack, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. At least five other emergency workers were wounded.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A series of powerful explosions echoed across Kyiv, with a wave of ballistic missiles followed by Shahed drones as many people sought shelter underground and officials urged residents to take cover.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cKyiv is under the main strike. There is significant destruction of civilian infrastructure,\u201d Klymenko said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Twenty people, including a child, sought medical help in the capital, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on Monday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/908902e2-7cef-4e20-9690-82d33e03016b_a0689258.jpg\" title=\"Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on Monday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on Monday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Five strikes hit civilian sites in the city\u2019s Shevchenkivskyi district in less than 30 minutes, he said, including a 25-storey flat building, while a market and a grocery store caught fire. In the Obolonskyi district, a nine-storey residential building took a direct hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine killed five rescuers in Kharkiv and wounded at least 20 people in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2854,2855,43,2856,2840,2857,158,2853,427,2858,25,2731,325,26,35],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-christianity","tag-dnipro-river","tag-donald-trump","tag-dormition-cathedral","tag-g7","tag-ihor-klymenko","tag-kyiv","tag-kyiv-pechersk-lavra","tag-middle-east","tag-monastery-of-the-caves","tag-russia","tag-shahed-drones","tag-tymur-tkachenko","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}