The Svyatogorsk Lavra came under fire. There are wounded

This is reported by Espresso.TV with reference to the State Border Service.

"The invaders fired at the Svyatogorsk Lavra in the Donetsk region", the border guards say.

According to the head of the local organization of the Stop Corruption public organization, Volodymyr Rybalkin, at 23:05 Russian aircraft caused the destruction.

"We got into the women's building. At present, the wounded and the dead are being taken out from under the rubble", he says.

At the same time, there is no information about the allegedly dead in the Lavra from other sources.

Information on the attack on the Svyatogorsk Lavra is confirmed by the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko.

The official cites a photo from the scene.

"Our "Orthodox brothers" shelled the Svyatogorsk Lavra in the Donetsk region. The Nazis have nothing sacred. They don't care what to bomb", Gerashchenko notes.

For his part, in connection with these events, the abbot of the Lavra, Metropolitan Arseniy of Svyatogorsk, recorded a video message.

"Vladyka said that a bomb fell near the bridge connecting the city and the monastery.

As a result of the air strike, windows were shattered in the Assumption Cathedral and the Pokrovsky Church. The Lavra hotel was also damaged, where at that time 520 refugees lived, 200 of whom were children.  Some were injured by glass fragments from windows. All those living in the monastery spent the night in the basements after the strike", the official website of the UOC-MP reads.

The airstrikes also damaged the Kramatorsk-Lviv evacuation train. One of the conductors of this train died from the inflicted injuries, another wounded was taken to a hospital in the city of Slavyansk.  This information was confirmed by the press service of Ukrainian Railway.

According to the head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko, invaders damaged a children's health center.

Reference

The Holy Assumption Svyatogorsk Lavra is one of the largest and main Orthodox shrines in Ukraine. The monastery is located in a picturesque place - on the rocky bank of the Seversky Donets River.  Geographically, it is the city of the same name Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region.

The temple complex is subordinate to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

People have been taking refuge there since 2014.