Dossier
Pechersk Lavra
Coverage of Pechersk Lavra in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Lenin was an enemy of humanity’: Why Kyiv wants to put Cossack chief statue in place of Soviet leader
Kyiv plans to replace a Soviet-era statue of Lenin with one of Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa, following the removal of such monuments after Russia's 2014 Crimea annexation and 2022 invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed the change, stating Mazepa should stand where Lenin once did.
- Strike on Kyiv Lavra Is Like Bombing Notre-Dame, French FM Says
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot compared Russia’s strike on Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra to bombing Notre-Dame or Saint-Denis, labeling it part of Vladimir Putin’s colonial war against Ukraine. The attack damaged the Dormition Cathedral in the UNESCO-listed monastery complex, a key site in Eastern Orthodoxy.