Posted on 07/23/2023 6:52:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A historic cathedral, architectural monuments and residential buildings in Odesa were severely damaged early on Sunday as Russian forces continued to pound the Ukrainian city with missiles.
“Another night attack by the non-humans,” Odesa’s governor Oleg Kiper said, adding that one person had been killed and 19 injured, including three children.
Kyiv and its allies say the air strike campaign aims to blockade maritime grain exports from the Black Sea port city to global markets and destroy Ukrainian culture.
“Missiles against peaceful cities, against residential buildings, a cathedral . . . There can be no excuse for Russian evil,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Twitter.
Ukraine’s air force said it had intercepted nine of the 19 missiles aimed at the once cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic city of 1mn people.
Photos and videos posted by Ukrainian officials showed the roof of the Transfiguration Cathedral partially collapsed, fires burning inside and its altar in ruins, though its dome and clock tower remained standing.
Ukrainian television showed local residents rushing to rescue icons and other religious artefacts from the building, which is part of a following linked to the Russian Orthodox church.
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“Odesa cathedral severely damaged as Russia bombards port city”
Not the wording of the headline - they’re trying to do better now and not immediately blame the Russians for the Cathedral hit, as we all know there are PLENTY of other possibilities as to what happened.
https://www.oikoumene.org/news/500-churches-and-religious-sites-destroyed-in-ukraine-during-the-war
More atrocity propaganda. It ain’t working.
The same people who blew up Nordstream, destroyed this cathedral.
“After Putin.”
It doesn’t work anymore, not here, and the same is quickly happening in the real world...they’re learning about the history of that part of the world.
Wasn’t the UOC banned by Zelensky because they are associated with Moscow? Why would Russia attack that church? More likely the Ukrainians accidentally bombed it.
Exactly. Atrocity propaganda. I’m sick of it. Are you?
“ Missiles against peaceful cities, against residential buildings, a cathedral . . . There can be no excuse for Russian evil,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Twitter.
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Obviously not targeted by the Russians. But they were where remnants of Ukrainian ABM missile defense fell.
Yes there are other possible explanations, but the ”razor” still holds.
The simplest explanation is usually correct.
So in the midst of a rocket attack, the Ukrainians blow up a church, yup got it
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