Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has condemned Russia’s overnight strike on Kyiv, which damaged the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. According to her, this is the true face of an empire that speaks of “spiritual values.”
“Russia’s barbaric attack on Ukraine last night killed and wounded numerous civilians and set fire to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest places of our shared history.
The Lavra is not only stones and walls. It is memory, faith, culture and the cradle of Christianity in here the spiritual tradition was born that unites Ukrainians and Belarusians through the centuries.
Those who claim to uphold “spiritual values” bring missiles and fire to sacred places. This is the true face of empire.
Belarusians stand with Ukraine, with all those affected, and with everyone defending the right of our peoples to their own history and future.,” she wrote on X.
