Kyiv shrines, memorials with powerful symbolic value at risk
AP Kyiv, bracing for a potentially catastrophic Russian attack, is the spiritual heart of Ukraine. Among the sites at risk in the Ukrainian capital are the nation’s most sacred Orthodox shrines, dating back nearly 1,000 years to the dawn of Christianity in the region. The sites, along with other landmark shrines in Kyiv, are religiously significant […]
Ukraine marks 80th anniversary of mass shootings in Kyiv’s Babyn Yar
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine marked the 80th anniversary on Wednesday of the mass shooting of civilians at the wooded ravine of Babyn Yar in Nazi-occupied Kyiv, one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Holocaust. Nazi troops at Babyn Yar gunned down nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children on 29th and 30th September, […]