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Russian strike on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra reopens the question of what is and is not protected in the war
A confirmed Russian drone strike on a 1,000-year-old monastery complex in Kyiv, and Ukraine's bitter quarrel with a US-supplied air-defence system, lay bare a cultural-heritage crisis that air-defence planners have been slow to confront.

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