UK envoy to Ukraine: Babi Yar strike shows ‘sickening hollowness’ of Putin’s denazification claim

2 March 2022, 8:33 am

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Ukrainian firefighters stand beneath a television broadcast tower in the Jewish cemetery located in Kyiv's Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site on March 1, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine)

The British ambassador to Ukraine condemns the Tuesday Russian missile attack on a television transmitter in Kyiv that killed five people and also struck the city’s Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site, saying it underlines Russia’s false claim that it is “denazifying” Ukraine.

“A Russian missile hits the Babyn Yar memorial park in Kyiv where thousands of Jews were murdered by Nazis. In case anyone bought Putin’s ‘denazification’ objective, here’s the stark staring proof of its sickening hollowness,” tweets Melinda Simmons.

Russian officials have frequently claimed that Russia is “denazifying Ukraine,” despite the fact that the Ukrainian president is Jewish and providing no evidence to back up its allegations.