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The distant echo of the artillery resounds without stopping, like a storm which moves away.
The white facade of the Dormition-of-the-Mother-of-God Lavra in Sviatohirsk is riddled with shrapnel.
Part of the roof was torn off by the bombs.
Considered one of the three holiest sites in Ukraine for Orthodox believers, this famous monastery on the right bank of the Seversky Donets River found itself at the heart of the war zone in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine for several months, until Ukrainian forces repelled the Russian army in a spectacular counter-offensive in mid-September.
For more than five months of intense fighting, the monastery's 200 monks were torn between their loyalty to Ukraine and their membership of the Moscow Patriarchate,
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