The same attack also hit the area of the Holocaust memorial in Kyiv
At least five have been killed after a Russian missile attack on a television tower in Kyiv, with five more injured.
Footage online appears to show the aftermath of the first strike on the tower, before a second missile hits the area of Kyiv’s Holocaust memorial.
The second Russian missile reportedly missed the TV tower and hit the area of the Holocaust memorial.
📹@Tala094shtepic.twitter.com/C92uYKQt5P— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) March 1, 2022
In a tweet confirming the casualties, President Volodymyr Zelensky also alluded to the fact that the Holocaust memorial had been hit, stating that “history is repeating”.
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? At least 5 killed. History repeating…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 1, 2022
Babyn Yar is the site of one of the biggest single massacres of Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust, when on September 29 and 30 1941, more than 33,000 Kyiv Jews were killed by machine gun fire on the site.
Since the end of World War Two, it has become a site for a number of memorials, in honour of those killed in the Holocaust.
The foreign ministry has labelled the attack on the site and neighbouring TV tower as ‘barbaric.’
The ministry tweeted: “Russian troops fired on the TV tower, near the Memorial complex #BabynYar.
“Russian criminals do not stop at anything in their barbarism. Russia = barbarian.”
Russian troops fired on the TV tower, near the Memorial complex #BabynYar.
Russian criminals do not stop at anything in their barbarism. Russia = barbarian. pic.twitter.com/MMJ6wSfpsS
— MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) March 1, 2022
The BBC reports that the 380-metre (1,250ft) TV tower is still standing.
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