{"id":1389328,"date":"2026-06-15T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1389328"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:39:42","slug":"president-of-ukraine-and-ecumenical-patriarch-discuss-russian-strikes-on-the-kyiv-pechersk-lavra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/president-of-ukraine-and-ecumenical-patriarch-discuss-russian-strikes-on-the-kyiv-pechersk-lavra\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Ukraine and Ecumenical Patriarch discuss Russian strikes on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone conversation with Bartholomew I while at Chi\u0219in\u0103u Airport on his way to the G7 Summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\">UATV English<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n   <p>The President thanked His All-Holiness for his support and for his clear moral position that Russian drone strikes on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra\u2014a holy site not only for Ukraine but for Orthodoxy as a whole\u2014constitute barbarism for which there can be no justification.<\/p>\n   <p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Patriarch Bartholomew also discussed possible formats for future in-person meetings.<\/p>\n   <p>The President invited His All-Holiness to visit Ukraine and thanked him for his prayers for the country and its people.<\/p>\n   <p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/unesco-condemns-russian-strike-on-kyiv-pechersk-lavra\/\">UNESCO Condemns Russian Strike on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone conversation with Bartholomew I while &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1389332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36415,55],"tags":[76,78,72924],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1389328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-ukraine-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-russian-airstrikes-on-ukraine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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