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The sacred and historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery’s Dormition Cathedral caught fire after a massive Russian air raid on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, that killed at least four people and injured more. Peter Beaumont writes from Kyiv that the strikes were part of a wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine, with reports of damage continuing to arrive early on Monday morning. Houses, cars and a high-rise apartment building caught fire and 140,000 people were without electricity in parts of Kyiv, said Vitali Klitschko, the mayor and Tymur Tkachenko, head of the capital’s military administration.
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Agence France-Presse said a major missile attack was taking place and its reporter saw projectiles intercepted in the sky with glowing debris falling on to the city. The risk of missile and drone attacks continued into Monday morning, Ukraine’s air force warned. Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko, posted a picture of monastery buildings in flames, adding: “A brutal assault on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values.”
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In Kharkiv city, at least five people were killed in what appeared to be a double tap strike targeting emergency responders who were extinguishing a fire from an earlier attack. A baby was injured in a drone strike on Kharkiv city, said the regional governor.
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On Sunday the regions of Zaporizhzhia and Sumy came under attack. Police said two people were killed and four injured in Sumy. A woman aged 73 died when a drone hit a car in Zaporizhzhia, said the regional governor.
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Ukraine hit two bridges connecting Crimea to Russian-controlled areas as it continued efforts to isolate the illegally occupied peninsula. Crimea is already grappling with a severe fuel crisis due to Ukrainian strikes on supply lines. On Monday, three people were killed and another three were injured, including a one-year-old child, in a drone attack on the Russian city of Tula, an industrial cluster south of Moscow, the regional governor said. Ukraine denies targeting civilians.
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Ukraine hit an oil facility in Russia’s Yaroslavl region and the critically important Azot explosives plant in the Tula region, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday. Strikes on Russian military logistics also succeeded in occupied parts of Ukraine. “Ukraine is carrying out its plan of long-range sanctions against Russia and the assigned tasks regarding mid-range strikes in response to Russia’s refusal to end this war,” Zelenskyy said.
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