Russia attacks TV tower in Kyiv, 5 killed: Report

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Kyiv,
Mar
1:
Ukrainian
officials
said
on
Tuesday
evening
that
the
Russian
forces
fired
at
the
Kyiv
TV
tower
and
Ukraine’s
main
Holocaust
memorial,
among
other
civilian
sites
targeted
on
the
sixth
day
of
the
Russian
invasion.

Ukraine’s
State
Service
for
Emergency
Situations
said
the
strikes
on
the
TV
tower
killed
five
people
and
left
five
more
wounded.
Ukrainian
parliament,
the
Verkhovna
Rada,
posted
a
photo
of
clouds
of
smoke
around
the
TV
tower,
and
Kyiv
Mayor
Vitali
Klitschko
shared
a
video
of
it
being
hit.

Klitschko
said
an
electrical
substation
powering
the
tower
and
a
control
room
on
the
tower
were
damaged
as
the
result.
The
head
of
Ukrainian
President
Volodymyr
Zelenskyy’s
office,
Andriy
Yermak,
said
on
Facebook
that
a
“powerful
missile
attack
on
the
territory
where
the
(Babi)
Yar
memorial
complex
is
located”
is
underway.

Babi
Yar,
a
ravine
in
Kyiv,
is
where
nearly
34,000
Jews
were
killed
within
48
hours
in
1941
when
the
city
was
under
Nazi
occupation.
The
killing
was
carried
out
by
SS
troops
along
with
local
collaborators.
(AP)