On Friday, The Daily Beast recounted how “in 1941, a Nazi soldier tried to burn down the Church of St. George in Zavorychi, a small town on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, but was stopped by an act of God. Just this week, Vladimir Putin’s tanks finished the job for him.”
As Russian forces storm into town, they began shelling buildings indiscriminately on their way towards the capital, the church was hit and caught fire, burning to the ground,” according to The Beast.
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#Ukraine #Ukraine #UkraynaFire in the church of St. George in the village of #Zavorychi in the #Kiev region, which occurred as a result of a shelling by the Russian army.#UkraineRussiaConflict#StopRussianAggression pic.twitter.com/c7I6Yqcu5Q
— MARCELUS PRETORIUS (@Medf72) March 8, 2022
After the attack, locals are coursing the Russians and vowing to make them pay for their crimes despite the overwhelming odds.
“hundreds more Ukrainian men and women volunteers join the frontline fight every single day. Many have dropped their families off at the borders of neighboring European countries and then returned to fight. Others are Ukrainians who are living abroad and have come home to take a stand for their country,” the report states.
Julia Tymoshenko, a 22-year-old native of the town who supplied The Daily Beast with a video depicting the wreckage said: “A part of me has died” with no hope of being resurrected. I always loved Easter… waking up at 3 a.m. to bless the food. People of our village used to bring baskets filled with goods and place them in a circle around the church.”
Now, Julia’s anguish has turned into rage.
“Those bloodthirsty bastards opened fire from their rusty tanks straight at my crib, my motherland… This church was a symbol of that community and my childhood at grandma’s,” she said. “I can only imagine the sorrow my grandma felt watching from her window how the church was turning into ashes. Everything that is left alive in me now burns.”
