Including a cathedral and a museum.. A map of Russian strikes that targeted civilian sites in Kiev news

In one night, the effects of the Russian attack on Kiev extended from residential neighborhoods and commercial buildings to an educational facility and prominent cultural and religious heritage sites. The damage was not limited to one point in the Ukrainian capital, but was distributed over a wide map, with which the city appeared as if it had received separate blows to its urban and cultural heart.

The Al Jazeera Network’s open source unit prepared a map of the damage sites, based on geographical identification of published video clips and photos, and comparing them with satellite images and map data.

The map shows various points within Kiev, including residential and commercial buildings, an educational institution for children, and cultural and heritage sites.

From Crystal Park to the Business Center

The map shows geographically specific points of damage to civilian sites inside Kiev, based on circulated clips and images that were matched with surrounding landmarks and satellite images.

Among these points is a site within the “Crystal Park Tower”, which is a modern residential and commercial complex that includes residential units and service and commercial facilities, and another point of damage was identified in the vicinity of a nearby residential building.

These sites highlight the urban damage caused to populated areas within the capital, as strikes appear in the vicinity of residential buildings and civilian facilities, not in isolated military areas.

In the Pechersk region, the map identified a damage point in the vicinity of the “Senator” Business Center, a Class A office building located within an administrative and commercial area close to metro stations and service areas in central Kiev.

This distribution reveals the overlap of damage between residential areas and commercial and service centers, in a city where the civil and economic structure operates within close urban spaces.

Damage to an educational institution for children

On the east bank of Kiev, geolocation showed a damage point at the A+ Academy of Modern Education within the Comfort Town complex.

The academy is an educational institution for children, which adds a sensitive dimension to the map of damage. The presence of a point of damage at an educational facility reflects the extension of the effects of the attack to civilian spaces related to the daily life of families, and not to the military or industrial structure.

The importance of this type of geographical identification is evident in that it does not merely republish the circulated clips, but rather links them to their actual location within the city, and determines the nature of the damaged place within its urban context.

Fire at a heritage site

The damage also extended to prominent cultural and heritage sites in Kiev, and the Ukrainian Emergency Authority said that a fire broke out in the ceiling of the Dormition Cathedral inside the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra complex, on an area of ​​​​approximately 800 square meters.

The Lavra Complex is one of the most prominent religious and cultural landmarks in Ukraine, and is listed as a World Heritage Site affiliated with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), along with Saint Sophia Cathedral and its associated monastic buildings.

Arsenal Museum..fire near the Lavra

Also in the vicinity of the Lavra, a fire broke out in the building of the “Mestitsky Arsenal” Cultural Museum, covering an area of ​​approximately one thousand square metres.

Mestitsky Arsenal is one of the most prominent cultural institutions in Ukraine, as it includes spaces for exhibitions and artistic, literary and museum projects, and for this reason the images of the fire in its vicinity gained special importance, not only because of the extent of the damage, but because of its location in the heart of the Ukrainian cultural scene.

The damage map shows that heritage and cultural sites were not far from the scope of the night attack, but rather appeared among its most sensitive points, along with schools and residential and commercial buildings.

Loss of cinematic memory

In the context of cultural damage, Ukrainian Culture Minister Tetyana Perezhny announced that the attack hit Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s National Film Studio in Kiev, one of the oldest Ukrainian film studios.

The minister said that the fire destroyed the fashion department, including the largest and oldest fashion collection in Ukraine, which included about 100,000 costumes and 3 million pieces of clothing and fashion supplies, in addition to damage to other buildings inside the studio.

The importance of the site increases after the European Film Academy included, in 2026, Dovzhenko’s studio on the list of “Treasures of European Film Culture,” a list that includes sites of symbolic and historical value for cinema in Europe.

The Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and other regions of the country were subjected to repeated waves of Russian bombing, especially in the dawn hours, which led to deaths, the outbreak of widespread fires, and damage to residential buildings and service facilities.

Testimonies from residents and local officials confirmed damage to civilian facilities, including the historic church, amid continued firefighting and rubble removal operations, while Kiev accuses Moscow of deliberately targeting civilians and infrastructure in attacks extending to several provinces.