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Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra monastery before Russia’s attack – in pictures

Published 17 June 2026 · world

Faith, belonging, survival – and now destruction: a photographic account of Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra monastery before Russia’s attack Award-winning French photographer Laetitia Vançon has spent

Faith, belonging, survival – and now destruction: a photographic account of Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra monastery before Russia’s attack Award-winning French photographer Laetitia Vançon has spent years capturing images at Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra monastery complex.

She says the Lavra ‘became a reflection of everything Ukraine has been going through’. Now the Unesco world heritage site has been damaged by Russian

airstrikes. This selection of pictures brings together some of the scenes she has witnessed and, she says, serves as a reminder that ‘when a place

like this is hit, it is never only stones and domes that are damaged’

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