Anastasiya Byesyedina

  • PhD, Department of Government and International Relations, Sessional Teacher and Student Writing Fellow, University of Sydney
Rescue workers try to put out a fire at the Dormition Cathedral of thousand-year-old Monastery of Caves, also known as Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, following a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, June 15. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

Russia’s strike on centuries‑old Ukrainian monastery complex reveals its growing desperation

This attack has been widely understood as a Russian attempt to eradicate Ukrainian identity, and target a site that is extremely spiritually important to Ukrainians.

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