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Anger grows over Russian strikes on beloved historic sites in Odesa
Updated On: 26 July, 2023 08:21 AM IST | Odesa | Agencies
Last week’s attacks were the first on Odesa’s historic city center since Russia’s invasion in 2022
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Believers pray outside the Transfiguration Cathedral, damaged during missile strikes on Odesa. Pic/AP
In only a week, Russia has fired dozens of missiles and drones at the Odesa region. None struck quite as deeply as the one that destroyed the cathedral, which stands at the heart of the city’s romantic, notorious past and its deep roots in both Ukrainian and Russian culture.
Tetiana Khlapova’s hand trembled as she recorded the wreckage of Odesa’s devastated Transfiguration Cathedral on her cellphone and cursed Russia, her native land. Khlapova was raised in Ukraine and had always dreamed of living in the seaside city. But not as the war refugee that she has become. “I am a refugee from Kharkiv. I endured that hell and came to sunny Odesa, the pearl, the heart of our Ukraine,” said Khlapova, who has lived in the country for 40 of her 50 years.
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