Russian Drones Strike Dormition Cathedral at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

Russian UAVs hit the roof of the Dormition Cathedral at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on June 15, sparking fires that emergency services extinguished. The eleventh-century cathedral, rebuilt after Soviet destruction and now overseen by Ukraine's independent Orthodox Church, anchors one of Eastern Orthodoxy's most symbolically weighted sites. The strike caps four years of documented damage to over 700 Ukrainian religious sites.