Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday accused Russia of seeking to “erase” Ukrainians, their country and their history.
In a video address, the Ukrainian leader said that a missile strike on a target on the site of a Holocaust massacre shows this “for numerous people in Russia our Kyiv is completely alien.”
“They know nothing about our capital. About our history. But they have orders to erase our history. Erase our country. To erase us everything,” he said, urging the worldIt’s up to the Jews to speak out.
“I now address all Jews of the world. Can’t see what’s going on? This is why it is very important that millions of Jews around the world should do not remain silent right now,” he said. “Nazism was born in silence. So scream about the murders of civilians. Cry out the murders of Ukrainians.”
The Russian missile attack targeting a nearby TV tower Kyiv, hit the site of Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial. A spokesperson for the memorial declared a Jewish cemetery on the site, where Nazi occupiers killed more over 33,000 Jews over two days in 1941, was damaged, but the extent would not clear until the day.
Ukrainian authorities have declared that five people were killed in the attack on the television tower. A TV control room and power substation were hit and at least some Ukrainian channels briefly ceased broadcasting, officials said.
“They know nothing about our capital. About our history. But they have orders to erase our history. Erase our country. To erase us everything,” said Zelenskyy of of President Vladimir Putin invasion force.
Ukraine’s president complained that under Soviet-era ruleauthorities had built the television tower and a sports complex on a “special part of Europa, a place of prayer, a place of memory”.
“Addictions. They built a park there. To erase the true history of Babi Yar… It’s beyond humanity”, did he declare.
In Kharkov, with a population of about 1.5 million, at least six people were killed when the regionest administrative building on Liberty Square was hit with What this’on believed to be a missile. The Slovenian Foreign Ministry said that son consulate in Kharkiv, located in another grand building on the placewas destroyed.
the attack on Place de la Liberté – the core of public the life in the city – was seen by many Ukrainians as shameless proof that Russia invasion was not just about hitting military targets but also to break their spirit.
The bombardment blew out windows and walls of buildings surrounding the placewhich was stacked with debris and dust. Inside one buildingpieces of plaster was strewn about and doors crossed the hallways.
“People are under the ruins. We fired out body,” said Yevhen Vasylenko, an emergency officer official.
Like the seventh day of war broke out on Wednesday, Russia found itself more and more isolated, prey to the sanctions that have thrown son economy in turmoil and left the country virtually friendless except for a few nations like China, Belarus and North Korea.
As the fighting raged, so did the humanitarian toll. About 660,000 people fled Ukraine and countless others took refuge underground.
the death the toll was less clear, with neither Russia nor Ukraine publish the number of lost troops. United Nations human rights office said it recorded 136 civilian deaths, although the actual toll is surely far off higher.
Ukrainian defense ministry felt that more more than 5,000 Russians soldiers had been captured or killed in greatest war on earth in Europe since World War II.
