Fire in the All Saints Skete of the Svyatogorsk LavraMOSCOW, June 4Ukrainian militants, retreating from Svyatogorsk (Donetsk People's Republic), set fire to a wooden skete in the Holy Dormition Lavra with a burst of machine gun fire, the Ministry of Defense told reporters. wooden skete of All Saints of the Land of the Russian Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra,” the department said. They specified that, according to local residents, the nationalists fired incendiary ammunition from a heavy machine gun mounted on a Kozak armored car into the wooden walls of the temple. After that, they left at high speed in a southerly direction, towards Sidorovo, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense emphasized that the Russian units that are located north of Svyatogorsk are not conducting military operations in this area and are not shelling the territory of the historical and architectural reserve. The Information and Educational Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reported earlier that the All Saints Skete was on fire in the Svyatogorsk Lavra. There is no information about the dead and injured yet.In the DPR, the All Saints Skete of the Svyatogorsk Lavra is on fire due to hostilitiesThe Skete of All Saints of the Russian Land was erected in Svyatogorsk in 2009, on the site of the temple of the same name, blown up in 1947. This is a wooden temple with 17 domes, built in the traditions of Russian architecture of the 16th-17th centuries. The Svyatogorsk Lavra has already come under fire from Ukrainian troops. On June 1, the Dean Archimandrite Galaktion (Vuychenko) and two more people from the brethren died there, three monks were injured. At the end of March, not far from the bridge, which is located at the entrance to the monastery, a bomb fell, the blast knocked out the windows and doors in the temples. More than 500 refugees, including 200 children, were in the Lavra at that time. No one died then. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
