Russian Strikes Kill Nine in Ukraine, Damage Historic Kyiv Cathedral
Missile and drone attacks on June 15 killed nine people and wounded dozens across multiple regions. The Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra sustained roof damage and fire.
deccanchronicle.comRussian missile and drone strikes on June 15 killed nine people across Ukraine and set fire to the roof of the Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra UNESCO World Heritage site. Four people died in Kyiv and one in Kherson. Five State Emergency Service rescuers were killed fighting fires in Kharkiv after a repeated strike, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.
At least 25 people were wounded in Kyiv, nine in Kharkiv, two in the Dnipropetrovsk region and three in the Sumy region. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 70 missiles and 611 drones, targeting Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro regions. Ukrainian units downed 50 missiles and 582 drones.
Russia's military said it struck Ukrainian military sites in those regions. More than a dozen fire trucks responded to the cathedral fire. An AFP journalist saw a gaping hole on one side of the building and flames visible from the partially destroyed roof.
The fire was extinguished by morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. A building at Kyiv's Mystetsky Arsenal National Art and Museum Complex also caught fire. Drone and missile strikes left more than 140,000 people in Kyiv without electricity, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The Kyiv attacks wounded at least 23 people, BBC News reported. A Ukrainian drone strike killed three people and wounded three others, including a one-year-old child, in Russia's Tula region, 200 kilometres south of Moscow, regional governor Dmitry Milyaev said.
Russian attacks damaged several buildings in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra complex in January 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Culture reported at the time. The strikes came ahead of a G7 summit in France where the Ukraine conflict is on the agenda.
