{"id":550946,"date":"2026-06-15T09:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=550946"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:01:51","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-those-who-claim-to-uphold-spiritual-values-bring-missiles-and-fire-to-sacred-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-those-who-claim-to-uphold-spiritual-values-bring-missiles-and-fire-to-sacred-places","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya: Those Who Claim to Uphold &#8220;Spiritual Values&#8221; Bring Missiles and Fire to Sacred Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> has condemned Russia&#8217;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 &#8220;spiritual values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-normal\">Russia\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-normal\">The Lavra is not only stones and walls. It is memory, faith, culture and the cradle of Christianity in <\/span><span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-normal\">here the spiritual tradition was born that unites Ukrainians and Belarusians through the centuries.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-normal\">Those who claim to uphold \u201cspiritual values\u201d bring missiles and fire to sacred places. This is the true face of empire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-normal\">Belarusians stand with Ukraine, with all those affected, and with everyone defending the right of our peoples to their own history and future.<\/span><\/i><i>,&#8221;<\/i> she wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has condemned Russia&#8217;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 &#8220;spiritual values.&#8221; &#8220;Russia\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2fb17325c77.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya: Those Who Claim to Uphold \u00abSpiritual Values\u00bb Bring Missiles and Fire to Sacred Places"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143172,143123],"class_list":["post-550946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}