Russian forces have bombed Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv where thousands of Jews were executed by Nazis during the Second World War:
that it was not directly damaged by the strike. However, he added that there was damage to a building that the center is planning to use as a museum in the future.]the move an act of “barbarism,”“To the world: what is the point of saying ‘never again’ for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?” Zelensky said in aThe target of the Babyn Yar strike was Kyiv’s main television and radio tower, located at the site.
A photo of a bomb hitting a television and radio tower at Babyn Yar, shared by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Referred to as the “Holocaust by Bullets,” the Babyn Yar massacre took place on September 29 and 30, 1941, when the Nazi’s executed Kyiv’s entire Jewish population. More than 30 thousand Jews were murdered in what was the largest mass killing perpetrated under the Nazi regime at the time.wrote on Twitter
. “80 years later, Russian Nazis strike this same land to exterminate Ukrainians. Evil and barbaric.” Kyiv TV tower, which has just been hit by a Russian missile, is situated on the territory of Babyn Yar. On September 29-30, 1941, Nazis killed over 33 thousand Jews here. 80 years later, Russian Nazis strike this same land to exterminate Ukrainians. Evil and barbaric.
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