But today, Pecherska Lavra, the holiest site in Ukraine, remains subordinate to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate. Only Russian is spoken in the monastery.

The Ukrainian-affiliated branch of the Russian Orthodox Church is being told to vacate the centuries-old Monastery of the Caves, known better as the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra, in another move by Kyiv to ...

A separately-standing two-storey building in the territory of the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra [monastery] caught fire in the afternoon of January 14, with 200 square meters of its area affected by fire, a ...