The images of the Russian attack on a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Zaporizhia

@ElentirENG ES 8·11·2023 · 17:23 0

In Ukraine, the Russian invaders continue their indiscriminate attacks against civilian targets, including religious centers.

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After the destruction of the Orthodox Cathedral of Odesa on July 23 by the Russians, now it is the turn of a temple located in Zaporizhia, on the banks of the river Dnieper, in the eastern half of Ukraine. On Wednesday, Russia launched a new attack on civilian targets which has killed three people. The attack has caused serious damage to residential buildings, without any military value. Ukraine's President Volodimir Zelensky has called the attack a "war crime" and has branded the Russian invaders "terrorists".

This time, the temple attacked was the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Zaporizhia, belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an autocephalous church that has its patriarchate in Kiev. As reported Thursday by the Diocese of Zaporizhia in its Facebook page, the temple was destroyed by a Russian missile during the invaders' attack on a residential area of the city.

The Diocese of Zaporizhia indicated yesterday that construction of this temple began in May 2003. Father Basil, its parish priest, worked on its construction: "Most of these are made by my hands, all the people have seen it. And the lining, and the columns, and the fence. Not a day went by that I did not work together with the people who helped me. The doors of the temple opened on October 17, 2004."

Father Basil declared this Thursday that he was not in the temple at the time of the attack, but was walking through a nearby park when he heard the explosion: "a couple of minutes later, a parishioner called me and told me he said, our temple no longer exists."

You can see in this post some images of the attack published by the Zaporizhia Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (here and here and bythe Defense Ministry of Ukraine. One wonders what those who see Putin as a defender of Christian values and Moscow as a new Rome have to say about this. The facts do not stop dismantling the lies of Russian propaganda.