Russian Strikes Kill Nine in Ukraine, Set Monastery Ablaze

Four people were killed while the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and ?cultural history, caught fire, in the heaviest Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital in two weeks, authorities said on Monday, urging residents to take shelter. 

The fresh strikes came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had spoken to U.S. President Donald Trump and discussed efforts to achieve an end to the more than



four-year conflict, ahead of a G7 meeting in France this week.

The central Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site ?founded in 1051, was seriously damaged in a direct attack, Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the capital's military administration, said in a Telegram post. "A brutal assault on our people ?and our heritage. 

This is the true face of Russia's Orthodox values," Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on X.