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burning Cathedral during a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 15, 2026.
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Attack on Kyiv Pechersk Lavra exposes the truth behind Russia's Christianity

by Kate Turska

Every empire eventually becomes trapped by its own mythology. Russia happens to be built on a peculiar combination of holy relics, imperial nostalgia, and endless lectures about "traditional values." The problem is that reality keeps interrupting the performance. In 2022, Margarita Simonyan (the Kremlin's propagandist) declared that Russia would never bomb Kyiv because "our shrine is there." The implication being: unlike everyone else, Russia supposedly possesses some special reverence for fait

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