An deadly Russian airstrike hit Kyiv’s main television tower in the heart of the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday, knocking out some state broadcasting but leaving the structure intact.
After a blast sounded around the city and smoke was seen rising in the Babi Yar district, the interior ministry said equipment had been damaged and “channels won’t work for a while.”
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At least five people died and five were injured in the missile strike, the Ukrainian emergencies service said.
Images from the scene showed charred bodies and cars damaged in the apparent Russian attack, which knocked out some broadcasts.
The attack on the television tower also struck a major Holocaust memorial in Kyiv, according to Ukrainian authorities and the board of the site. A spokesperson for the memorial said most of the damage to the Babi Yar site was to buildings in the Jewish cemetery located in the complex but a security team was still making assessments.
There did not appear to be any direct damage to the Babi Yar monument itself, a spokesperson for the site told The Times of Israel.
Ukrainian firefighters were called to extinguish a fire that broke out after the buildings were hit by a Russian missile
Ukrainian firefighters work to put out a blaze in a building in the Jewish cemetery located in Kyiv’s Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on March 1, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
The Babi Yar memorial rests on a mass grave containing 34,000 Jews who were slaughtered there in 1941 when the city was under Nazi occupation. The massacre was carried out by SS troops along with local collaborators.
“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,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish and had family members die in the Holocaust, wrote in a tweet.
