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NOOOOOO! Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.

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Yes. Back then, the Soviets were always our enemy. We later went through a brief period of hope that they might change into a better country. But they went full circle. They are first among a small group of equals, the worst of the worst. Fuck them.

Nicely put. Yes. The West had hope. I think old George Bush led well and Clinton/Gore handled the post-Cold War draw down well. But we lost the plot around 9/11/2001 and when Putin came on the scene in 2000.

I am, of course, not speaking of the wonderful people who lived and suffered behind the Iron Curtain through no fault of their own. I speak of the Soviets - Stalin, KGB and their ilk. Read Solzhenitsyn. Visit old Soviet regions. I have. It was barbarous.

Are you aware of what the US military was up to at that time? Just in Vietnam 3.5 milion killed, mostly civilians. As a US military veteran you have no moral high ground to stand on.

It houses Ukraine’s oldest historical records. Nestor the Chronicler, famous Lavra monk, wrote Primary Chronicle here in the early 12th century, which is the foundational historical text for history of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia

There is a level of intentional cruelty here that deserves a non-proportional response. Easy for me to say in the U.S. but I think we'll soon be in the same environment and I want the force against these evil slugs to feel free to overwhelm them. Do it now - it will never become easier.

Following the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in 988 AD, the Lavra quickly grew into the most influential monastery in Eastern Europe, shaping the religious and political landscape of the entire region.

The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra was founded in 1051 AD during the golden age of Kyivan Rus'. It is historically important because it served as the cradle of East Slavic Orthodoxy, a center for early literacy and chronicle-writing, and a premier medical and cultural hub for Eastern Europe.

I’m so sorry Olga. Ukraine will survive and rebuild because the people will settle for nothing less but the needless, cruel losses are so many.

This is where we land, USA is a morally bankrupt country, doing shit deals while world heritage is destroyed. Shame on the us and their stupid likely quid pro deals. Solidarity with Ukraine..

It’s a sign of Putin’s desperation, is what this is. He is destroying history because he cannot take control of it himself.

This is a sure sign the Russia's 'prince harming' is 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 desperate! He doesn't realize that this with just make Ukrainians 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 determined to destroy or push 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 Russian soldier from their land. Just a guess but I'll bet Ukraine takes another crack at the bridge connecting Russia and Crimea.🧐

Russian terrorist MF’ers!!! Losing the war they started, they resort to targeting homes, human safari, committing environmental disasters and every other war crime imaginable. Now destroying irreplaceable historic sites, that belong to the civilized world A word they don’t understand, damn orcs

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What it looked like before the Russians attacked it bsky.app/profile/stra...

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💔 Fires were confirmed on the territory of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra during tonight’s attack. It is one of Ukraine’s most important historic and sacred sites. I was there on Friday and filmed the Dormition Cathedral. Look at what russians target.

War is our civilizations uncivilized legacy of the human race. Until we all decide to care about eachother we will just continue this journey of choas & revenge towards one another! Evil is still here on earth! 😔

My prayers are with you May it be restored with the same (relative) swiftness and splendor as Notre Dame Cathedral They may burn the church; they cannot extinguish the Faith, or escape the fire that burns those who would attempt to usurp universal justice.

That fire is incinerating any last doubt in the world that the Russian Orthodox Church is a corrupt, venal and servile instrument of the state. To support the Putin regime, and this war, it will tolerate even this. Talk about a crime against humanity.

Russia is a thug country that deserves to be shamed - throw Russia out of the United Nations, bomb the fuck out of that country - so sick of putin and all those who enable him - this is disgusting and that country needs to pay a heavy price for their actions.

I translated old church Slavonic texts from the same time as this monastery during grad school. What an incredible loss. Putin deserves a tyrant's death for the evil he has put into the world.

I think often about one of @adapalmer.bsky.social s essays where she imagines telling Machiavelli that Florence is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and seeing him collapse in happy tears because that would happen if you told him humanity considered Florence someplace worth preserving at great cost

Can we please stop letting rich old bastards destroy our world and our heritage? Please? It's like the *one* thing that's never been tried in history. The second one of these old men gets outta line we should yeet them off a mountain like Midsommar.

I thought Putin considered the Kyiv Cathedrals as part of untouchable and sacrosanct- that is what I was told by a classmate of mine who got his PhD in Ukraine - was part of Soviet Russia - married a Ukrainian Engineer - and settled in Moscow - his spouse is estranged with her cousins who live on