Russian attacks fuel blaze at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine monastery

Deadly Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight sparked an intense blaze at a 1,000-year-old monastery in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, one of the country’s most important religious and cultural landmarks

Deadly Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight sparked an intense blaze at a 1,000-year-old monastery in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, one of the country’s most important religious and cultural landmarks.

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The attacks killed at least 11 people, including four in the capital and five rescue workers in the northeastern city of Kharkiv who were responding to an earlier Russian strike, officials said early Monday.

But the sight of fire and smoke engulfing the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage site founded in 1051, drew significant and widespread condemnation.