Zelenskyy: the aggressors "denazified" the laurel of the Moscow Patriarchate

Kateryna Tyshchenko - Monday, 14  March 2022, 00:19

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised that there was no military target in the Svyatogorsk Lavra of the Moscow Patriarchate, which was attacked by Russian troops.

Source: Presidential address

Verbatim: "The aggressors decided to ‘demilitarise’ and ‘denazify’ the Svyatogorsk Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the east of our country.

Only monks and hundreds of refugees were on the territory of the monastery at the time of the attack. There was no military target in or near the monastery. Though, Russian troops didn’t even stop the attack on the laurel."

Details: This fact alone demonstrates that the whole ideology of the Russian Federation is a lie, according to Zelenskyy.

Background: The premises of the Holy Assumption Svyatogorsk Lavra, where monks and refugees were sheltered, were damaged during the hostilities in the town of Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk region, on 12 March.

2 people were badly injured and over 30 people received minor injuries as a result of the shelling, according to the Head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko. Nearly one thousand people were sheltered in the Svyatogorsk Lavra during the shelling.