Abroad|The Russian attack
According to Ukrainians, a missile strike on a television tower killed at least five people. Next to the tower is the Babi Jari Holocaust Memorial.
International Jewish organizations and many politicians have strongly condemned Russia’s Tuesday missile strike that hit a Kiev television tower. At least five people were killed in the attack, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Adjacent to the television tower is the Babi Jari Holocaust Memorial, where a museum about the massacre of Jews in World War II is to be built.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi sent an angry message to the international community after the bombing.
“What common sense is‘ never again ’for 80 years if the world remains silent when a bomb is dropped on the same spot in Babi Jaria? At least five dead. History repeats itself, ”Zelenskyi wrote on Twitter.
Babi Jarina in a known gorge were killed According to the Ukrainian Institute of History in two days more than 33,000 Ukrainian Jews in September 1941. On-site operation according to the Holocaust Center the Nazis killed a total of 70,000 to 100,000 Jews in the same area between 1941 and 1943.
Russian a missile strike near Babi Jari was seen as great irony, as Russia says it is liberating Ukraine from the “Nazis” who are president Vladimir Putin perpetrated genocide against the Russian minority in eastern Ukraine.
In practice, Russia seeks to oust the democratically elected Zelensky, who is a coincidental Jew.
Chairman of the Board of Babi Jarin Holocaust Center Natan Sharansky stated In his Facebook postthat “Putin is trying to distort and manipulate the Holocaust to justify its illegal attack on a sovereign state”.
Russia’s arguments for the war were presented on Tuesday, for example embassy of the country In the Canadian capital Ottawa:
“The Russian army is not fighting Ukraine or the Ukrainians. The aim is to cleanse Ukraine of Nazism, and the demilitarization of the country will take place. … Russia will not start wars. Russia will stop them. ”
The United States foreign minister Antony Blinken said on Twitter that he was horrified by the Russian missile strike in the Babi Jari area. “We condemn this brutal war against Ukraine,” he said.
The Holocaust Museum in the U.S. capital, Washington, said it was furious about the Russian attack. According to it, Babi Jar is a “holy land”.
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