One person and 19 injured, including four children, in Russian bombardment that damaged the Transfiguration Cathedral, a Unesco world heritage site
The Transfiguration Cathedral after a Russia bomb shattered the dome and ceiling, in Odesa, Ukraine, July 23 2023. Picture: NINA LIASHONOK/REUTERS
The Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral, or the Transfiguration Cathedral, was damaged badly, said Odesa’s military administration. Odesa’s largest church building, it is in the historic city centre, a Unesco world heritage site. Ukraine’s defence ministry said the cathedral had now been “destroyed twice” — by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Russia’s defence ministry reported strikes on targets in the area but denied it struck the cathedral and said the building was probably hit by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile. “The Russian aggressors demolish grain stores, depriving millions of hungry people of food. They devastate our European civilisation, its sacred symbols,” she said.
Ukraine’s air force said on its Telegram messaging app early on Sunday that Russia launched high-precision Onyx missiles and sea-to-shore Kalibr cruise missiles on Odesa.
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