Overview
- The Tuesday service at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery honored Liubava, 12, and Vira Yakovlieva, 17, whose mother is now the only surviving family member after their father died in 2023.
- The sisters were killed when a missile hit their Kyiv apartment building on May 14, causing a collapse that killed 24 people and adding to a police tally of at least 704 children killed since 2022.
- Ukraine’s interior minister said a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, a long-range weapon, likely exploded on the ground floor and buckled the building.
- After the strike, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia "deliberately destroys lives" and urged allies to increase pressure on Moscow.
- The Kremlin said its forces hit military targets and denied that its army attacks civilians.