Babyn Yar

This photo, taken by Maxar Technologies' GeoEye-1 satellite on April 3, 2022, shows a newly excavated mass grave (the rows near the center top, just under the road) in the Ukrainian town of Manhush, which is close to the besieged port city Mariupol. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies)

April 22, 2022, 6:43 am

‘A new Babyn Yar’: Satellite photos show possible mass graves near Mariupol

Ukrainian officials say as many as 9,000 civilians could be buried in Manhush near the besieged city, accuse Russia of trying to cover up crimes

By Adam Schreck

Director Sergei Loznitsa at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, France, May 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

March 29, 2022, 1:45 am

Ukraine’s most famous director ostracized for unflinching film on Babyn Yar pogrom

Last week, Ukrainian Academy Award winner Sergei Loznitsa was dismissed from his country’s Film Academy after making a film on the Holocaust. His work is taking the US by storm

By Jordan Hoffman

The damaged Drobytsky Yar memorial near Kharkiv after reportedly being hit by Russian artillery fire, on March 26, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

March 26, 2022, 4:56 pm

Ukraine says Holocaust memorial smashed in Russian strikes near Kharkiv

Kyiv’s foreign minister lashes Russia for attack near Drobytsky Yar, where 15,000 Jews were killed during World War II, says he expects Israel to condemn Russia

By TOI staff

Yad Ezer L'Haver director Shimon Sabag and a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine, March 19, 2022. (Screen grab/YouTube)

March 25, 2022, 11:52 pm

4 Holocaust survivors rescued from bombarded Kyiv with help of Israeli charity

’70 years ago there was no one to save us and take care of us like now,’ says Natalia, 82; some say they want to move to Israel after daring journey

By Tobias Siegal

Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky, speaks to Israeli reporters, March 24, 2022 (screenshot)

March 25, 2022, 3:42 am

Top Zelensky adviser opens up about his Jewish roots, urges greater Israeli support

Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak reveals that his relatives were killed in Babyn Yar; says president sleeps 4-5 hours a night and keeps up activities despite fear of assassination

By Lazar Berman

The Babi Yar memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, is defaced with swastikas, in September 2014. (Screenshot/YouTube)

March 24, 2022, 8:02 pm

Jewish businessman paid for Nazi graffiti in Ukraine before Russia invaded – report

Ukrainian oligarch Pavel Fuks, accused of paying locals to daub swastikas in Kahriv and Kyiv, quoted saying ‘he had no choice’ after Russian agents approached him

By Tobias Siegal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commemorates Holocaust victims at the at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, Ukraine in April 2021. (Courtesy of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center via JTA)

March 4, 2022, 10:52 am

Babyn Yar memorial wasn’t hit, but Zelensky finds tool to rally Jews worldwide

Ukraine highlights Zelensky’s Jewish roots and appeals to emotions of Jews as it seeks to counteract Putin’s claim to be waging a ‘denazification’ campaign

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov speaks at a press conference at the Russian Consulate in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

March 3, 2022, 5:13 pm

Russian envoy to Israel claims Putin not out to conquer Ukraine, rails at fake news

Anatoly Viktorov slams media coverage he says is trying to portray Russia and Putin as ‘monstrous,’ particularly regarding deadly strike in Kyiv near Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial

By TOI staff

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres, at Babyn Yar in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, September 29, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

March 3, 2022, 12:22 pm

At Babyn Yar, history sounds the alarm

Biden says ‘freedom will always triumph over tyranny’ and Putin will ‘pay the price’ for his war on Ukraine. But freedom does not always triumph, and certainly not always in time

By David Horovitz

A Ukranian-Israeli family, including teenagers Valerina and Vera, leave behind a war-torn Ukraine from Lviv on March 2, 2022 (Credit: Lazar Berman)

March 2, 2022, 5:23 pm

Israeli tourists, cousins of Jews board rescue bus from Lviv to Poland

Embassy staff, currently in Poland, organize transportation for dozens of citizens and relatives to flee Ukraine as Russian forces encircle major cities

By Lazar Berman

President Isaac Herzog, left, with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

March 2, 2022, 4:15 pm

Herzog: Russian strike near Babyn Yar memorial ‘epitomizes pain’ of those in the war

On official visit to Cyprus, president says Russian invasion of Ukraine is ‘an affront to international order,’ Israel helping in diplomatic efforts to end conflict

By TOI staff and Agencies

A Polish border guard assists refugees from Ukraine as they arrive to Poland at the Korczowa border crossing, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

March 2, 2022, 2:05 pm

Daily Briefing March 2: A report from Ukraine border; Israel mulls refuge-seekers

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman checks in from the train to Lviv as US correspondent Jacob Magid and political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn discuss the Knesset, UN and Iran

By TOI staff

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's top adviser Vladislav Roitberg in an interview with Channel 12 news, on March 1, 2022. (Screenshot)

March 2, 2022, 1:03 pm

In Hebrew, Zelensky aide vows Ukraine won’t surrender to Putin’s ‘personal madness’

Speaking with Israeli TV, Vladislav Roitberg accuses Russia of targeting and killing civilians, says attack that damaged Babyn Yar area is ‘illogical’

By TOI staff

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video address posted to Facebook, March 2, 2022. (Screenshot)

March 2, 2022, 11:56 am

Zelensky urges Jews to shout as Russia ‘erases’ Ukraine: ‘Nazism is born in silence’

In Hebrew post to his Facebook page, Ukrainian president says Russian strike that damaged Babyn Yar area underlines Moscow’s threat to Ukrainian identity

By Agencies and TOI staff

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)

March 1, 2022, 10:36 pm

Israeli, Jewish officials denounce Russian strike near Babyn Yar memorial complex

Foreign minister vows to help repair damage to the site; Yad Vashem Holocaust museum lambastes ‘outrageous’ Russian attacks against civilians

By Judah Ari Gross