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Lapid says Israel will help fix damage to Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJudah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent.
An art installation commemorating victims of the Babi Yar massacre during commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre of Kyiv Jews perpetrated by German occupying forces in 1941 in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says Israel will help fix whatever damage has been caused to the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site in Kyiv in a recent Russian strike on a nearby television broadcast tower.
In his statement, Lapid says Israel “denounced the damage” to the Babi Yar memorial and to a nearby Jewish cemetery, but pointedly refrains from identifying Russia as having caused it.
“We call for the sacred site to be protected and honored,” Lapid says.
“At the instruction of Foreign Minister Lapid, the ambassador to Kyiv is in contact with the managers of the site and, when it is possible, we will help fix the damage,” the ministry says.
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