A Ukrainian drone struck a monastery within the Kursk area of Russia, Reuters reported on 19.07.2024. A 60-year-old parishioner was killed within the assault, which happened round 08:30 native time.
A Russian channel in “Telegram” indicated {that a} drone had fired eight projectiles on the Belogorsky Monastery “St. Nicholas” within the village of Gornal, subsequent to the Ukrainian border.
Ukrainian authorities haven’t commented on the assault.
The boys’s monastery was based in 1671 and the author Fyodor Dostoyevsky as soon as lived there, who immortalized his conversations with the monks in his novel The Brothers Karamazov.
A toddler was injured in a earlier assault on the monastery in August final yr.
St. Nicholas Monastery in Gornal village, Kursk Diocese, has been severely broken within the hostilities that broke out within the Kursk area after the Ukrainian troops had crossed the state border of the Russian Federation. The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled St. Nicholas Monastery, which is situated in Gornal village, Sudzha district, Kursk area, a number of kilometres from the border with Ukraine, patriarchia.ru studies.
Based on the abbot of the monastery, Hegumen Pitirim (Plaksin), the Ukrainian forces opened hearth on the monastery at about 7 a.m. on sixth August 2024, virtually destroying the monastery’s fundamental church that was being ready for consecration. Burnt partitions is what’s left of the church. The Church of the Intercession of the Mom of God and the brethren’s residing quarters caught hearth and have been additionally severely broken.
On seventh August, a lot of the monks managed to evacuate. Seventeen individuals left the monastery. Through the evacuation, one individual, a monastery employee, died. Two monks nonetheless stay within the monastery. It’s unattainable to contact them.
There’s persevering with uncertainty as to what’s going on within the monastery now. Based on unverifiable info, it’s beneath management of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Because the hostilities within the area proceed, it’s unattainable to acquire extra details about the individuals nonetheless remaining within the Gornal Monastery and the injury to its buildings.
As for different church buildings within the Kursk Diocese which may be broken by the shelling, info is being clarified.
Photograph: DECR Communication Service, 09/08/2024