ON February 24, 2022 Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin launched an invasion against Ukraine.
Less than a week later Russian troops attacked a sacred Holocaust memorial site in the Ukraine.
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What happened at Babyn Yar?
On March 1, 2022 Russian troops attacked multiple sites in Ukraine.
One of the places hit was the Kyiv TV tower in Kyiv.
A 40-mile long column of tanks and artillery advanced on Kyiv that day.
The attack on the TV tower left five people dead according to reports.
Another attack was on Babyn Yar, a Holocaust memorial site.
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The foreign ministry of Ukraine confirmed the attacks via Twitter.
“Russian troops fired on the TV tower, near the Memorial complex #BabynYar. Russian criminals do not stop at anything in their barbarism. Russia = barbarian,” the account wrote.
What is Babyn Yar?
The Babyn Yar memorial site is where the killing of over 30,000 Jews over a 36-hour period took place beginning in 1941.
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This is the site of many massacres took place during Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote on Twitter about the attacks on the sacred site.
“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?” he wrote. “History repeating…”
The Babyn Yar memorial website lists 28,620 names of people who died during the 1941 attacks.
What are people saying about Babyn Yar?
Ukraine has already accused Moscow of war crimes by bombarding civilian areas in the second city of Kharkiv.
Other officials took to Twitter to comment on the recent attacks at Babyn Yar.
Another Ukrainian official, Dmytro Kuleba, wrote the following:
“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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