Holy Trinity Church, one of the largest and oldest in the region, suffered serious destruction as a result of the fire communicated in the report on the Internet representation'k eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

"Shells crashed through the roof and exploded inside. The walls of the temple survived, but much split fragments. Almost no roof, broken altar and many icons. The temple was destroyed after the February signing of the Minsk agreements, according to the report.

according to the diocese, it is not the 1st bombardment of the temple. This press release is not reported when it happened the last fire. Holy Trinity Church was built in 1840 and has the status of a monument of architecture.

Just today in the end of the armed conflict within Severodonetsk-Starobelskii diocese damaged 12 churches and chapels, according to a press release. According to information from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the end of last year, at the Donbass completely destroyed nine temples, more than 77 damaged, among the dead are 3 of the cleric.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against disgruntled happened last February by the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The twelfth of February in Minsk parties to the conflict agreed on the next stop of the fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the establishment of public security.

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