{"id":90485,"date":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/russian-attacks-in-ukraine-kill-11-damage-historic-kyiv-cathedral\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","slug":"russian-attacks-in-ukraine-kill-11-damage-historic-kyiv-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/russian-attacks-in-ukraine-kill-11-damage-historic-kyiv-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian attacks in Ukraine kill 11, damage historic Kyiv cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large overnight Russian missile and drone barrage has killed at least 11 people across Ukraine, wounded 53 and knocked <!--more--> out power to 140,000 households. The attack ignited a major fire at the Dormition Cathedral within the UNESCO\u2011listed Kyiv\u2011Pechersk Lavra monastery \u2013 the spiritual heart of Ukrainian Orthodoxy. It also heavily damaged the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studios, destroying a collection of roughly 100,000 costumes.<br \/>\nMetropolitan Epiphanius I condemned the attack as \u201ca crime against humanity\u201d. In Kharkiv, a \u201cdouble\u2011tap\u201d strike killed five rescuers who were extinguishing an earlier fire. President Zelenskyy said Russia\u2019s actions show its intention to continue the war, calling for a decisive G7 response and more air defence support. Asked by Al Jazeera for his response, he said solemnly: \u201cWe will see. We will see. Anyway, we all always respond.\u201d His comments came after a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Sunday, where they discussed peace and a future meeting at the G7 summit.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Audrey MacAlpine reports from Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/X.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/X.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out our Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App: <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Ukraine #UkraineWar #KyivUnderAttack #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianDroneStrikes #MissileAttackUkraine #KyivStrike #PecherskLavra #Zelenskyy #Putin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large overnight Russian missile and drone barrage has killed at least 11 people across Ukraine, wounded 53 and knocked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}