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👉Was the #DroneAttack on the #Kyivan #UNESCO site even a premeditated *escalating retaliatory* strike?!? 👈

...“But you understand, we won’t do that, because we are, after all, civilized people,” 👉#Medvedev said, adding that “there are other, quite attractive targets there.”👈

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#Russia #WarInUkraine #UNESCO
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👉Was the #DroneAttack on the #Kyivan #UNESCO site even a premeditated *escalating retaliatory* strike?!? 👈

...in occupied #Crimea, where a replica of a historical panorama was almost entirely destroyed by fire. After that attack, 👉#Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and United Russia party leader 👉#DmitryMedvedev said he wanted to “respond symmetrically against similar sites on their side.”👈

#Russia #WarInUkraine #UNESCO
*#PutinUnmasked by #CaveMonastery*

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👉Was the #DroneAttack on the #Kyivan #UNESCO site even a premeditated *escalating retaliatory* strike?!? 👈

#Russia #WarInUkraine #UNESCO #DormtionCathedral
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"...👉The attack came five days after a #Ukrainian drone struck the “Defense of #Sevastopol” museum...

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/06/17/the-last-time-the-dormition-cathedral-was-destroyed-german-forces-occupied-kyiv-this-week-the-attack-was-russian-architectural-journalist-asya-zolnikova-traces-a-millennium-of-history#:~:text=economic%20zone%20in-,Tatarstan,-.

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(12/n)

...(On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians), published July 12, 2021 on the official Kremlin website: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

The contradictions between #Putin's words and his deeds.
Here are the most damning quotes from Putin's essay when contrasted with the destroyed cathedral and 1,913 cultural sites:

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...for crimes against humanity:*

I) Collective punishment — destroying #Ukrainian cultural heritage to demoralize and subjugate the population

II) 👉Ethnic cleansing — erasing #Ukrainian national identity by destroying monuments that define it👈
Assault on civilian morale — targeting religious and cultural identity as a weapon of war.

3) "Об историческом единстве русских и украинцев"...

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...deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime.

2) Criteria (under #ICC Rome Statute, Article 7):

a.) Systematic or widespread character ✓ (1,913 sites over 4 years)

b.) Knowledge of the attack ✓ (documented Russian strikes, previous hits having come close since 2022)

c.) Part of a plan or policy — This *might* be debatable but the scale suggests systematic targeting.

*The..

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...published July 12, 2021 on the official Kremlin website: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

*Footnotes:*

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1) Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court [#ICC] (Article 8(2)(b)(ix)) —...

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...subjugate the population

II) 👉#EthnicCleansing — erasing #Ukrainian national identity by destroying monuments that define it👈
Assault on civilian morale — targeting religious and cultural identity as a weapon of war.

3) "Об историческом единстве русских и украинцев" (On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians),...

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......character ✓ (1,913 sites over 4 years)

b.) Knowledge of the attack ✓ (documented #Russian strikes, 👉previous hits having come close since 2022👈)

c.) Part of a plan or policy — This *might* be debatable but the scale suggests systematic targeting.

*The argument for crimes against humanity:*

I) Collective punishment — destroying #Ukrainian cultural heritage to demoralize and...

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...historical and cultural wholeness.

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*Footnotes:*

1) Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court [#ICC] (Article 8(2)(b)(ix)) — deliberate destruction of cultural heritage constitutes a war crime.

2) Criteria (under #ICC Rome Statute, Article 7):

a.) Systematic or widespread...

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...that territorial, ethnic, and religious boundaries have been artificially imposed upon an underlying unity. #Kiev occupies a unique position in this framework: simultaneously the symbolic mother-city of Rus civilization, a repository of #Orthodox sacred authority, and a strategic territorial objective whose "return" to #Russian sovereignty represents the restoration of...

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...as a sacred site of reunification and #orthodox identity.

*Essence of #Putin's 2021 essay:*

👉#Putin's treatment of #Kyviv and #KievanRus cultural heritage constructs a narrative of unbroken civilizational continuity anchored in language, #OrthodoxChristianity, and dynastic legitimacy.👈 Cultural artifacts—chronicles, geographical names, ecclesiastical institutions—are enlisted to support the claim...

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...has a symbolic and historical role as a repository of #Rus cultural identity despite political dispersion. After the "devastating invasion of #Batu #Khan,

6. Western #Catholicism and #Polish influence represent an active threat and corrosive force against the preservation of #Rus cultural heritage,

7. #Kiev...

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Therein:

👉#Putin's Conceptualization of #Kiev and #KievanRus as *Common* #CulturalHeritage: 👈

1. The primacy of Kievan Rus as a unified civilizational project,

2. Kiev's institutional supremacy and canonical precedence,

3. The adoption of #OrthodoxChristianity as the decisive cultural and civilizational marker unifying the #Rus lands,

4. #Linguistic continuity and shared language,

5. #Kiev...

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👉Putin retraces real spiritual leaders of his regime, the 1941 #Nazi ocupation force which blew up the #DormitionCathedral: 👈

https://youtu.be/HLEX7oPK3L0

#Putler's next #WarCrime 1) and probable #CrimeAgainstHumanity 2) unmask his utmost hypocrisy, even of his most central, *alleged* tenets:

#VladimirPutin's central 2021 essay, "*On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians*" 3)
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