On Tuesday, a Russian strike on a TV tower in Kyiv also damaged the Babi Yar (in Ukrainian, Babyn Yar) memorial site, which marks the mass grave of tens of thousands of Jews, murdered there in 1941. JNS reports:
Natan Sharansky, chair of the advisory board of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, confirmed the damage. “[That] Putin seeks to distort and manipulate the Holocaust to justify an illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic country is utterly abhorrent. It is symbolic that he starts attacking Kyiv by bombing the site of Babyn Yar, the biggest of Nazi massacre[s],” Sharansky wrote.
On Twitter, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky lamented the irony of the memorial being hit. “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?” he wrote. . . .
Yad Vashem also “vehemently condemned” the strike by Russian forces and urged the international community to take action, stating, “We call on the international community to take concerted measures to safeguard civilian lives as well as these historical sites because of their irreplaceable value for research, education, and commemoration of the Holocaust. . . . Sacred sites like Babi Yar must be protected.”
Read more on JNS: https://www.jns.org/russian-bombs-damage-kyivs-babi-yar-holocaust-memorial-site/