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 Zelenskyy 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.
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