#transfiguration cathedral in odesa

[tomorrowusa]

In addition to bombing maternity hospitals, playgrounds, and apartment buildings, Putin's war criminals are now bombing cathedrals.

This was the second time that the vast, sand-yellow Transfiguration Cathedral, which sits in the heart of Odesa’s Unesco-listed historic centre, had been attacked: in the 1930s, it was torn down during Joseph Stalin’s atheism drive. On Sunday morning, the rebuilt version was hit during a Russian airstrike on the city. A missile blew a large hole in the roof, collapsed the altar and left several walls charred by fire. It was one of several strikes on the southern port city in the early hours. Schools, residential buildings and a revered 19th-century mansion also suffered damage. One person was killed and 14 were hospitalised, the regional governor said.

Central Odesa is a designated World Heritage Site.

Putin is having another major hissy fit. His three-day "special operation" to wipe out Ukraine as a country began on 24 February 2022 and marks its 17th month today. He is currently attacking the port city of Odesa because that is where most of Ukraine's grain is exported. If Putin can't have Ukraine, developing countries can't have grain.

Russia has been hitting Odesa relentlessly since Moscow last week pulled out of a deal allowing Ukrainian grain to be exported from the city’s Black Sea ports. The Russian defence ministry has also threatened to treat commercial ships attempting to dock in Odesa as military targets in order to ensure that no grain can leave the city. “Russia’s current strategy is to destroy Odesa. They would never really attack foreign-flagged ships coming to Odesa, so they are attacking Odesa to make it clear that it’s too dangerous here,” said Oleksiy Honcharenko, a Ukrainian MP from the city. He said Ukraine urgently needed more air defence systems. Even by the standards of Russia’s ruthless war strategy, a missile strike on a historic cathedral – one that was consecrated by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, no less – was a shocking development. The priests at the scene were dumbfounded. “This is barbarism, it’s terrorism. The people who did this are not people at all,” said Myroslav Vdodovych, the cathedral’s chief priest, as he walked through the ruins in a fluorescent orange helmet, taking calls on his mobile phone and directing emergency workers to spots where there was still rubble to clear.

Of course it's terrorism. Russia has become a terrorist state under Putin. Putin runs the country like the head of a fascist mafia.

We need to send ATACMS and F-16s to Ukraine. Fortunately Ukrainian pilots are already in the process of being trained to fly F-16s.

A lot of the terrorist missiles used against Ukraine are fired from planes flying over the international waters of the Black Sea. Ukraine needs the ability to shoot down Putin's flying terrorists. Let them sleep with the fishes along with the Moskva.

[blueiscoool]

Russian Terrorist Attack

The Historic Transfiguration Cathedral in Ukraine Destroyed in Russian Strikes

Russian missiles badly damaged dozens of Ukrainian architectural landmarks, including a historic Orthodox cathedral in the southern port city of Odesa, sparking outrage and prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to vow retaliation.

The strikes – the latest in a wave of attacks on Odesa – killed at least one person and injured several others, Ukrainian officials said. At least 25 architectural monuments were destroyed, a regional military official said.

“Russians deliberately aimed their missiles at the historic city center of Odesa, which is under the UNESCO protection. Everything that was built with hard work by great architects is now being destroyed by cynical inhumans,” Oleh Kiper said.

The Transfiguration Cathedral is Odesa’s largest church building. It was consecrated in 1809, destroyed during the Soviet era in 1936 before being rebuilt when Ukraine became an independent nation.

[vintage-ukraine]

The late XVIIIth century Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa on a postcard from the late XIXth century

The cathedral was demolished by the Soviet authorities in 1936 and rebuilt in 2010, the restored building was heavily damaged by a russian missile strike on July 23, 2023

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Russian war crimes: A Russian missile hit the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa on July 23, 2023. Source: www.pravda.com.ua

P.S. The Russians used the Orthodox Church as an ideological tool to oppress the subject peoples, but now with this attack the Russians themselves are destroying the spiritual shackles that hold together the informational space of the former empire...Even the religious minded people now understand that God's enemies reside in Moscow and the Kremlin must be completely destroyed...

[ammg-old2]

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, was destroyed once before: In 1936, Joseph Stalin, who was battling organized religion in the Soviet Union, demolished the 19th-century structure, which was eventually rebuilt after the Soviet Union’s fall.

Last week, at the hands of another Russian leader, the cathedral was attacked again.

In the early hours of July 23, a Russian missile strike, which killed one city resident and injured about 20 others, reduced a large portion of the cathedral to rubble. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried the attack, one more in a string of blows that have devastated the city.

“All these missiles target [are] not just cities, villages or people, but humanity and the foundations of our entire European culture,” says Zelenskyy, per Iryna Nazarchuk of Reuters.

Congregants gathered around the wreckage to sift through it, picking out religiously significant artifacts. Myroslav Vdodovych, the cathedral’s chief priest, was overseeing the cleanup and expressed his utter disbelief over the brazen attack.

“I was one of the first people here, because I got notified when the alarm signals went off,” he tells Shaun Walker of the Guardian. “It was a direct hit, right in the altar area.”

The Guardian says that the strike was a “shocking” development, “even by the standards of Russia’s ruthless war strategy.” The Transfiguration Cathedral was consecrated in 2010 by the Russian Orthodox bishop Patriarch Kirill; since then, Kirill has gained notoriety as an ardent supporter of both Vladimir Putin and the war.

Odesa, a port city on the Black Sea, is a vibrant cultural center with a rich history. Russian forces have targeted Odesa on multiple occasions since the war began, and UNESCO added the city center to its List of World Heritage in Danger earlier this year. Beyond the cathedral, other recent strikes in Odesa have damaged the Archaeological Museum, Maritime Museum and Literature Museum, according to Sophia Kishkovsky of the Art Newspaper.

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s director-general, condemned the recent attacks. “This outrageous destruction marks an escalation of violence against the cultural heritage of Ukraine,” he said in a statement earlier this week.

Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, denied responsibility for the cathedral’s destruction, instead casting the blame on Ukranian weaponry, report Hanna Arhirova and Elise Morton of the Associated Press.

Vdodovych spent the morning after the attack on his church coordinating the recovery effort. He tells the Guardian that if any silver lining is to be found, it is that the cathedral blocked the missile from slamming into nearby buildings. Although those buildings sustained some damage, he says, none of their occupants died.

“In this way,” Vdodovych says, “we can say the cathedral saved lives.”

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

Russian missile attack destroys Odesa's Transfiguration Cathedral.

The cathedral was hit in an overnight missile attack that killed one civilian and injured 18 others, including four children.

On July 21, UNESCO condemned the Russian military attacks on Odesa's historic center, named a world heritage site earlier this year. UNESCO listed "religious buildings" as among the reasons the city center deserved this designation. The Transfiguration Cathedral was founded in 1794. The original building was destroyed by Soviet forces in 1936, and the new cathedral was established in 2003.

[divinum-pacis]

July 2023: Odesa, Ukraine A woman prays next to a Kasperovskaya Mother of God icon recovered from inside the Transfiguration Cathedral after a Russian missile strike

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

[that-is-who-you-are]

❗️Preliminarily, 25 architectural monuments were damaged by a russian attack overnight in Odesa.

Among them are the buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries:

- Chyzhevych's house

- House of Papudova

- Zabludovsky's house

- Gagarin's house

- Janush's house

- Zhdanova's house

- House Russell del Turco

- House of Mass

- Manuk Bey's mansion

- Kovalevsky's house

- Porro's house

- House of Mashevsky and others

«Information as of 14:00. The documentation of crimes continues, experts are working on the ground»– Oleh Kiper, the head of Odesa regional military administration said.

This is the Transfiguration Cathedral in the center of Odesa:

The destruction suffered by the House of Scientists (Palace of Count Tolstoy). The building is an architectural monument of Odesa. Currently, the halls are damaged, many exhibits have been lost:

Historical center:

[kamogryadeshi]

Russia attacked Odesa with at least five types of missiles of all types of bases

The enemy used Caliber, Onyx, X-22 and Iskander-K, as well as Iskander-M ballistic missiles.

According to the Operational Command "South", the forces of the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces destroyed a significant part of the missiles, but the port infrastructure and at least 6 residential buildings were destroyed. The Transfiguration Cathedral was seriously damaged.

Currently, we know about 1 dead and 22 more wounded, among them 4 children, 11 adults and 3 children hospitalized, the rest are being treated on an outpatient basis.

[marykk1990]

My next post in support of Ukraine is:

Next site, I'm just going to share four beautiful Ukrainian cathedrals in different cities.

Pic 1, Saint-Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv.

Pic 2, Annunciation Cathedral, Kharkiv.

Pic 3, St. George's Cathedral, Lviv.

And, Pic 4, Transfiguration Cathedral, Odesa. Sadly......

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa was struck by a muscovy missile and looked like this afterward.

#RussiaIsATerroristState

#StandWithUkraine

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

[warriormale]

Heavy damage to the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, from a Russian missile strike last month.Credit...Emile Ducke for The New York Times

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[victusinveritas]

Transfiguration Cathedral, Odesa

[unhonestlymirror]

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa was seriously damaged as a result of a russian attack. The city council reported that in addition to significant damage to the building, Orthodox shrines were also damaged.

[ftgrfk-blog]

Massive missile attack by russian terrorists on Odesa.

At least five types of missiles of all types of bases: "Caliber", "Onyx", Kh-22, Iskander-K, Iskander-M.

At this moment, 1 person died, 22 were injured, 4 of them were children.

As a result of a missile attack, Transfiguration Cathedral was damaged.

russian terrorists also launched a missile attack on the historic center of Odessa, which is protected by UNESCO.

[globalchristendom]

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa is on a World Heritage Site.

[tomorrowusa]

Putin never accepted Ukraine as an independent state. He then deluded himself into thinking that people in Ukraine would welcome a return to Russia and would cheer his invaders as liberators. Now Ukrainians want to have even less to do with Russia.

Rather than spread Russia's influence, Putin's invasion has prompted serious shrinkage of it.

The port city of Odesa has been the target of numerous Russian attacks recently. It has been engaged in a de-Russification campaign. The Russian empress, or rather her bronze likeness, used to stand proudly on a pedestal in the heart of the city that she founded in the late 18th century. Now she is here, locked in a box away from public view. The removal of Catherine (the Great), unthinkable before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, is a reflection of the mood in a city that is rapidly losing all sentimentality about the Russian-linked pages of its past as it comes under sustained fire from Russian missiles. [ ... ] Catherine’s removal is just one part of a programme of “de-Russification” that is going on all over Ukraine. It has a particular hue in Odesa, where it is not only the figure of Catherine that binds the historical and cultural landscape to Moscow. Many of the great Russian-language writers were from Odesa or spent time there, its residents largely speak Russian and its Transfiguration Cathedral was consecrated by Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, in 2010.

But now, President Putin is swiftly accomplishing something that 30 years of Ukrainian independence had previously struggled to do: he is turning Odesa into a proudly Ukrainian city. A barrage of missile attacks over the past two weeks, the first time the centre of the city has been significantly damaged since the start of the war, is likely to only accelerate this process. [ ... ]

One of the more visible elements of the battle against Russian heritage is a Ukraine-wide programme to rename streets, which have, over the years, reflected the frequent political upheaval that has come to this part of Europe. Catherine Square, where the monument to the empress previously stood, has been called Karl Marx Square and Adolf Hitler Square within living memory. Now, many names are to be changed again, with Russian-influenced names replaced by Ukrainian names or simply topographical markers. In Odesa, a local council committee has regular meetings to discuss where changes should be made.

Ukraine is even changing the calendar to stick it to Russia.

Ukraine moves Christmas Day in snub to Russia

Ukraine has moved its official Christmas Day state holiday from 7 January to 25 December, the latest move aimed at distancing itself from Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law a parliamentary bill that aimed to "abandon the Russian heritage of imposing Christmas celebrations". In recent years, Kyiv has been cutting religious, cultural and other ties with Russia, aligning itself with the West. This process escalated following Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Mr Zelensky signed the bill on Friday - two weeks after it had been passed by Ukrainian lawmakers. The legislation also moves another two state holidays, Day of Ukrainian Statehood, from 28 July to 15 July, and the Defenders' Day, which commemorates armed forces veterans, from 14 October to 1 October.

BTW: Day of Ukrainian Statehood (День Української Державності) is not the same thing as Ukrainian Independence Day (August 24th). Day of Ukrainian Statehood marks the official conversion of King Volodymyr the Great and Kyiv to Christianity in 988. Poland has a somewhat similar foundation story; Grand Duke Mieszko's conversion in 966 is regarded as the beginning of the Polish state.

Before anybody sheds tears for anything Russian, be aware that Russia has always tried to impose its language and way of life on countries it has occupied. That continues in parts of Ukraine under Putin's temporary control.

The Hardest Soft Power: How Moscow Forces The Russian Language On Occupied Ukraine

The whole point of the invasion has been to wipe out Ukrainian identity. There's a word for that: genocide.