Reserve discusses transfer of Lower Lavra buildings to AFU with Taira
Acting Director of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve Maxym Ostapenko. Photo: svidomi.in.ua
Maxym Ostapenko, acting director of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve, held talks with paramedic Yulia Payevskaya (Taira) on the creation of a rehabilitation center for soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Lower Lavra. Ostapenko told this to a Channel 5 journalist.
According to him, members of the commission, who are checking the safety of the buildings of the Lower Lavra, are already on the lookout for separate premises to be transferred to Ukrainian servicemen.
Ostapenko also said that the creation of a rehabilitation center on the territory of the Lavra "will allow Ukrainian soldiers to feel what they fought for."
“Where to do this if not in the Lavra? There is a unique complex of historical monuments here, there are unique cultural heritage sites, to which fighters, who have been captured and tortured, can be attracted in various ways. Here you can talk with priests, exactly in the places where the shrines of the Ukrainian people are located. A person who has gone through the most terrible trials of the war can feel here what he fought for and that this is his legacy, the legacy of his grandchildren. Now we need to do such rehabilitation projects. Taira came with the chaplains precisely in order for us to form a certain history, a certain pool of ideas that the Reserve can provide, what chaplains can do, what priests in the caves can do, in order to unite and launch this program as soon as possible,” he said. .
As the UOJ reported, Oleksandr Tkachenko said that the Ministry of Culture plans to arrange folk crafts and a military rehabilitation center in the Lower Lavra.
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