During the Russian attack yesterday, September 4, in the morning, two churches located near the Lviv railway station were damaged.
“As a result of the Russian morning shelling, the church of St. George the Victorious (OCU) on Chernivetska Street in Lviv was damaged,” the Lviv City Council reported.
“Today, the Sts. Olha and Elizabeth Church on Kropyvnytskoho Square was also damaged. Five double-glazed windows were broken. Of course, compared to other destructions in the city, the damage seems minor,”
wrote the rector of the UGCC church, Fr Ivan Halimurka, in a social network.
He also noted: “This is an attempt on the house of God, which has not yet been fully restored from the satanic Soviet occupation outrage. The nature of the occupier never changes - it is outright rabid Satanism.”
Today, the Russians attacked the city with missiles of various types and Shahed drones, killing 7 people, including a UCU student with her mother and sisters, and seriously wounding a well-known religious journalist and publisher, Volodymyr Hromyk. A total of 64 people were injured, including 8 children; rescuers saved 12 people. Educational and medical institutions and many other buildings, including 7 architectural monuments, were damaged.
On September 5, mourning was declared in Lviv.