Russian Strikes Damage UNESCO-Listed Kyiv Monastery

A large-scale Russian air attack on Kyiv killed four people and injured 23 others, according to Ukrainian authorities. The heaviest assault on the capital in two weeks also severely damaged the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a major religious complex and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Founded in 1051, the Orthodox monastery is one of the most important symbols of Ukraine’s spiritual and cultural history. Drones and missiles also struck several apartment buildings and damaged power lines, leaving about 140,000 residents without electricity.

Fighting continued elsewhere in the country. A second Russian strike on Kharkiv killed five emergency workers and injured at least five others. Three people, including a child, were wounded in Sumy.

Poland temporarily scrambled fighter jets in response to a possible incursion into its airspace, but later announced that no violation had occurred.

A drone attack on the Russian city of Tula killed three people and injured three others, including a one-year-old child, according to regional governor Dmitry Milyayev.

Separately, Russian-installed governor Vladimir Saldo reported that a Ukrainian drone attack had damaged two bridges linking the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Kherson region with Crimea. Traffic across the bridges was suspended.

(reuters, max)