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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Zelensky: World ‘silent’ on bombing of Holocaust memorial, what about ‘never again’?
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky laments the world’s silence as Russian airstrikes on Kyiv damage the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial on the sixth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In a tweet, Zelensky asks “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?”
Zelensky says that “at least 5 [people were] killed” in the Russian bombing of Kyiv, which targeted a TV tower in the capital and also damaged the Holocaust memorial. He adds: “History repeating…”
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…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 1, 2022
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.
The extent of the damage to the site was not immediately clear.
The Times of Israel Community.