Ukrainian drone strike kills three in Russian city of Tula
A Russian cathedral roof burned in Kyiv as a Ukrainian drone killed three in Tula, showing a war battering civilians and cultural landmarks alike.
Fire tore through the roof of the Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra as Russian missile and drone strikes hit Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, killing nine people and damaging one of the country’s most important religious and cultural landmarks. The assault, which also sent residents rushing for shelter, underscored how the war has become a campaign of endurance against both people and memory.
Ukrainian officials said fire broke out on the grounds of the UNESCO World Heritage monastery complex in the capital, and the damage to the cathedral was described by religious leaders and officials as an attack on Ukraine’s spiritual heritage. Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine appealed for prayers for the shrine, while the blaze added to the sense that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed not only at military infrastructure but at the places that define daily life and national identity.
The same wave of violence also hit hard elsewhere in Kyiv, where more than a dozen people were injured and local authorities warned residents to take cover. In Poland, fighter jets were briefly scrambled because of a possible airspace incursion before the government said no violation had been recorded, a reminder of how quickly the conflict can send shock waves beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Ukraine answered with its own strike inside Russia, where a drone attack in the city of Tula killed three people and wounded three others, including a one-year-old child, according to Governor Dmitry Milyayev. The strike hit a residential area in the Tula urban district, about 200 kilometers south of Moscow, showing that Russia’s rear areas are no longer insulated from the war they have helped sustain.
The back-and-forth came after earlier large-scale Russian attacks in early June that killed at least 22 people across Ukraine. Together, the strikes point to a conflict increasingly defined by civilian exposure and cultural destruction, with neither side able to keep its cities fully out of reach.
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