Stained-glass windows at Church of Saints Olha and Elizabeth damaged in Russian attack on Lviv – photos

A Russian drone struck a children's playground near the monument to Stepan Bandera in central Lviv on the morning of 14-15 January. As a result of the strike, stained-glass windows at the nearby Church of Saints Olha and Elizabeth were damaged.

Source: Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of Lviv Oblast Military Administration

Details: Windows were also shattered in residential buildings, at Lviv Polytechnic University, a school and a college.

First Deputy Mayor of Lviv Andrii Moskalenko posted photos of the damaged church. They show that only the stained-glass elements of the exterior decoration were affected.

The church was built in 1904. The building also houses a stained-glass iconostasis installed in 2016 by stained-glass artists Yurii Pavelchuk and Oleksandr Lychko. It is the first stained-glass iconostasis in Ukraine.

The neo-Gothic cathedral is a monument of local architectural significance.

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