Kyselivka

The ancient brick chapel, which until now functioned as a village church, burned down on May 2, 2022, as a result of Russian artillery shelling. The roof, facades, walls, and interiors of the chapel have been destroyed. Together with the church, almost all the old icons that the old residents saved from the Soviet authorities were burned.

Since the 1930s, the village (which until 1905 was called Poliatske) was inhabited by Catholic immigrants from Polish, Lithuanian, and Belarusian lands. The chapel was built in 1852 at the expense of Countess Celestina Pankratieva and the faithful of the village. In 1926, the Soviet authorities closed the temple, adapting it into a fertilizer warehouse, and then as a place for repairing tractors. In 1990, the church was returned to the local Roman Catholic community. He was taken care of by the Christian Fathers, who are a society within the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine. They repaired the shrine, and in 2013 the church was consecrated by Bishop Bronislav Bernatsky.

The chapel survived two world wars and the communist regime but was destroyed by Russian troops. Like most buildings in Kyselivka, the church cannot be restored.