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Today, we mark the 975th anniversary of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra – almost a millennium. Longer than the history of individual people, families, or generations. And yet still less than everything that unites us – unites us into a community, a nation, a state. Unites us as Ukraine.
We must preserve every one of our national shrines like this. And all the more so now, when the challenges of the passage of time have been compounded by the challenges of Russia’s utterly godless and asinine war against Ukraine and against all the places of our culture, our history, our memory – against all places that embody humanity.
You have to be utterly despicable and utterly witless to strike the Lavra, but Russia did it.
From the address marking the 975th anniversary of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. 1/3
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Today, we mark the 975th anniversary of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra – almost a millennium. Longer than the history of individual people, families, or generations. And yet still less than everything that unites us – unites us into a community, a nation, a state. Unites us as Ukraine. We must preserve every one of our national shrines like this. And all the more so now, when the challenges of the passage of time have been compounded by the challenges of Russia’s utterly godless and asinine war against Ukraine and against all the places of our culture, our history, our memory – against all places that embody humanity. You have to be utterly despicable and utterly witless to strike the Lavra, but Russia did it. From the address marking the 975th anniversary of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. 1/3