The head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko said that the invaders destroyed or damaged 43 religious buildings in the Donetsk region. The vast majority of them belonged to the UOC-MP.

On Saturday, June 4, as a result of the shelling of Svyatogorsk, the All Saints Skete of the Svyatogorsk Lavra burned down..

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According to Kirilenko, the destruction of religious buildings is the purposeful destruction of any manifestations of Ukrainian culture..

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During the shelling on May 30, three monks of the Svyatogorsk Holy Dormition Lavra were killed. This was reported by the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavel Kirilenko.