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The false flag burning of the Dormition Cathedral within the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery complex on 15 June could have been predicted with mathematical certainty. It was never a question of whether it would happen, but only of when.
The tell-tale signs of a staged event are everywhere. The public, too busy and careless to inquire deeply or ask elementary questions, are again being taken for a ride by the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime and its collective West sponsors who are guiding and logistically facilitating every single move the regime makes.
The damage sustained by the Dormition cathedral in Kiev is said to be the result of a deliberate hit by Russian rockets during the weekend attack on targets in the Ukrainian capital. Never mind that the Kiev regime regularly claims that it shoots down virtually all of the projectiles launched against targets on the territory that it controls, which raises the logical question of how anything at all could have been hit and damaged. But we can leave propaganda nonsense aside.
It is further alleged, and this is the key point for understanding what could or could not have happened, that the Russian attack was carried out using Iskander and Zirkon rockets, an assertion that actually appears to be correct.
But if so, the damage to the cathedral is unnaturally superficial. It is entirely inconsistent with the use of such destructive munitions, a detail that the propagandists seem to have overlooked.
A quick Google search discloses that the actual damage to the cathedral, which according to the photograph disseminated by the Ukraine regime is confined to a portion of the roof, is incompatible with the use of means of such destructive power.
The pertinent facts are as follows. An Iskander-M carries a 480–700kg warhead. A Zircon carries an estimated 300–400kg warhead and strikes at Mach 8+. The kinetic energy alone of these missiles is devastating enough, even before the explosive yield is factored in. How could a relatively fragile structure built centuries ago have survived the impact with just minor damage? Will the atheists and followers of other religions which despise everything the Dormition cathedral represents, but who rule Ukraine, now conveniently invoke a “miracle”? Was the Dormition cathedral with the structures surrounding it saved from complete annihilation by an opportune intervention from on high? That is exactly what they must do in order to explain the fact that the cathedral is still standing where we should find a huge crater, if the scenario of deliberate targeting by Russian forces, which is what they are claiming, were true.
What the aerial photograph published by the Ukrainian authorities shows is not destruction resulting from a direct rocket attack but the scene of a roof fire, with perhaps some debris falling on top of the building.
The visual evidence is totally incompatible with the Ukrainian regime narrative of what is supposed to have happened. It makes that version look absurd on its face.
The evidence, however, is fully consistent with the theory of an event deliberately staged by the Kiev regime to profit from the rocket attack on its military targets in Kiev, to manipulate it to extract a propaganda advantage and additional funds with a view to the G7 meeting that was being held at approximately the same time. The regime has a long record of staging false flag events that coincide with important foreign visits and meetings. The carefully controlled roof burning of the Dormition cathedral, just enough to generate useful propaganda images and cause a global uproar, is reminiscent of the Reichstag fire in Berlin staged by fellow Nazis in 1933. And it offers to the Kiev regime an additional propaganda dividend. It distracts attention from the Ukrainian Armed Forces deliberately targeted attack on the Russian teachers’ college in Starobilsk during the night of 21-22 May, resulting in the callous murder of over 20 students in their sleep.
The collective West propaganda machine sprang into action without delay, literally minutes after the Dormition cathedral was set on fire. That also is consistent with the false flag interpretation of the event because it indicates foreknowledge and prior coordination. As The New York Times sternly intoned “As Russia strikes Ukraine, a cultural symbol catches fire, the latest casualty in the war is a centuries-old cathedral,” then adding as a probably unintended joke that “President Volodymyr Zelensky called it ‘one of the largest Russian crimes against Christian culture.’” That is the same “President” Zelensky, the pious custodian of Christian culture, who just months prior had despoiled the Kiev Lavra of its Christian relics, shipping them off to private collectors and museums in the West.
The BBC and Deutsche Welle dutifully followed the same line, bewailing the damage to an Orthodox cathedral that they could not care less about, and associating the fire with a deliberate rocket attack that, had it really struck the cathedral, would have provoked destruction on an immeasurably larger scale.
The incident was immediately framed as a deliberate consequence of a “major Russian attack on Kyiv [that] has left at least 11 people dead and dozens injured, while also damaging one of the most sacred sites in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The historic Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra—a UNESCO World Heritage site—was set ablaze. Clergy rushed to assess the damage and protect religious artefacts.” An “expert” called upon to deliver an assessment before any forensic or other investigation had taken place (again, consistent with the established pattern) self-assuredly pontificated on technical details he could not possibly have known anything about and maliciously speculated on the vile motives of the Russian government in allegedly targeting such a major Orthodox shrine.
The only person who has the moral right to comment on what happened to the historic spiritual centre entrusted to his care is metropolitan Pavel, who happens to be the abbot of Kiev Caves Lavra where the damaged cathedral is located. At great personal peril to himself, he has recorded the only fitting response to the desecration. Metropolitan Pavel, who is a political prisoner of the Kiev Nazi regime currently on conditional release, addresses in poignant tones the deeper spiritual reasons for the attack on his monastery and cathedral and sets out the reasons for the conflict that is raging in his country. His heartfelt and honest words will be drowned out by the propaganda din. But his statement, which is in Russian, is highly commended to the attention of non-Russian speakers, who can use available translation tools to listen to it.
The Dormition Cathedral false flag once again highlights the critical importance of propaganda in modern political warfare, some of the battles also being fought by military means. The good news is that fewer people are falling for the threadbare narratives, all cut out of the same cloth, that the unimaginative purveyors of these falsehoods are routinely spreading. But let us not delude ourselves that everyone has the ability to dissect their lies.
