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Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday that Russian forces launched a strike on the Kiev TV tower as well as the country's main Holocaust memorial, among other civilian sites hit on the sixth day of the confict.
Ukraine’s State Service for Emergency Situations said the strikes on the TV tower killed five people and left five more wounded.
The Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, posted a photo of clouds of smoke around the TV tower and Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko shared a video of it being hit.
Mr Klitschko said an electrical substation powering the tower and a control room at the tower were damaged in the strike.
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 under way.
Babi Yar, a ravine in Kiev, is where about 34,000 Jews were killed over the course of 48 hours in 1941 when the city was under Nazi occupation. The killing was carried out by SS troops along with local collaborators.
Holocaust remembrance organisations in Israel have condemned the Russian attack that inflicted damage to the memorial.
A monitor displays a projectile striking the regional state administration building in Kharkiv, as the Russian invasion continues. Reuters
People help a wounded woman in the aftermath of Russian shelling in Kharkiv. EPA
Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry the body of a victim following shelling in Kharkiv. AP
Students who fled the conflict rest in a refugee camp in Voluntari, Romania. AP
Members of an Ukrainian civil defence unit pass new assault rifles to the opposite side of a blown-up bridge on Kiev’s northern front. AFP
Civilians cross a river on Kiev's northern front. AFP
A woman takes photos of a destroyed accommodation building near a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kiev. AP
The city hall of Kharkiv, damaged by Russian shelling. AFP
Debris litters the square outside the damaged Kharkiv city hall. AFP
A Ukrainian woman sleeps on the floor of the railway station in Zahonyi close to the Hungary/Ukraine border. AFP
A medical worker attends to wounded man at a hospital in Brovary, outside Kiev. AP
Refugees from Ukraine in a tent at the Medyka border crossing, Poland. AP
Debris outside the regional administration building, which city officials said was hit by a missile, in Kharkiv. Reuters
A student evacuated from Ukraine is embraced by her family after arriving at Tunis-Carthage International Airport in Tunisia. AFP
Rescuers in a building damaged by a missile in central Kharkiv. Reuters
An ambulance is visible through the damaged window of a vehicle hit by bullets in Kiev, Ukraine. Reuters
Territorial defence members prepare to head out on patrol in Kiev. EPA
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech on screen during the opening of the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. AP
A policeman detains a young demonstrator during a protest against Russia's attack on Ukraine in St Petersburg, Russia. AP
Local residents in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, prepare Molotov cocktails. Reuters
Residents clean a bomb shelter under an out-of-service cinema in central Zhytomyr. Reuters
Ukrainian volunteers tear cloth into strips to make camouflage nets in Lviv, western Ukraine. AP
Part of the military convoy north-west of Invankiv, Ukraine. AP
Mark Goncharuk, a young boy from Kiev, leaves his father behind as he travels with the rest of his family towards the border. Reuters
People hold an anti-war protest outside the Russian Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico. Reuters
A crater caused by shelling on the outskirts of Kiev. AFP
People queue outside a grocery store in the Ukrainian capital. EPA
Ukrainian soldiers stand at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, in Kiev. EPA
Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation, second left, and Davyd Arakhamia, faction leader of the Servant of the People party in the Ukrainian Parliament, third right, attend the peace talks in the Gomel region of Belarus. AP
People who have fled the Russian invasion in Ukraine, clamour to board a bus bound for a refugee centre established in Przemysl, Poland. Reuters
Hanna Pavlovna Lukasz, from Mirhord, Ukraine, said her sons, aged 12 and 8, and her 66-year-old mother had been waiting on the Ukrainian side of the border crossing with Medyka, Poland, for four days. AP
A volunteer from Kiev prepares a rear post with trenches in the city. AFP
A child being treated for cancer rests in the bomb shelter of the oncology ward at a hospital in Kiev. Getty
Police officers check occupants of a suspicious car in Kiev, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues. Reuters
A woman from Ukraine uses a phone to listen to a speech by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a refugee shelter in Beregsurany, Hungary. Reuters
Shelves empty of bread after a curfew was lifted as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kiev. Reuters
Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov, left, and President Zelenskyy. AFP
Snow-covered shoes donated for those fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland. Reuters
People who have fled Ukraine wait for a bus to transport them away from the border crossing in Medyka. Reuters
Norwegian soldiers of the Nato-enhanced forward presence battalion pose at a military plane as they arrive at an airport in Kaunas, Lithuania. AP
A person fleeing Ukraine sits during snowfall at a temporary camp in Przemysl, Poland. Reuters
Footage reportedly of Russian Buk missile system vehicles on a road before a drone strike near Malyn, Ukraine. Reuters
An explosion after what are said to be Russian Buk missile system vehicles on a road are struck by a drone. Reuters
The monument to Russian troops from the Second World War, after the figures’ hands were painted red, at the Red Army memorial in Sofia, Bulgaria. EPA
The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, is lit up with the colours of Ukraine’s national flag in a show of support. AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the construction site of the National Space Agency on the premises of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, in Moscow. EPA
A man looks out from a train, at the railway station in Lviv, Ukraine. The UN has estimated the conflict could produce as many as four million refugees. AP
A Ukrainian boy waits for his mother after passing the border crossing point in Siret, northern Romania. EPA
Russian policemen detain a demonstrator in St Petersburg, during a protest against the country's military actions in Ukraine. EPA
Ukrainian soldiers at a check point in the city of Zhytomyr. Reuters
Residents prepare petrol bombs to defend the city, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. Reuters
A pro-Russian fighter sits inside a tank in the separatist self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, in the Luhansk region, Ukraine. Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, second left, and Head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov, left, during their meeting in Moscow. AP
Ukrainians and supporters gather during a demonstration in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens against the Russian military's operation in Ukraine. AFP
Ukrainian Territorial Defence fighters test an automatic grenade launcher taken from a destroyed Russian infantry mobility vehicla after a battle in Kharkiv. AFP
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid issued a statement denouncing the incident and said Israel would help repair any damage.
“We are calling for the preservation and respect for this sacred site,” he said in a tweet that did not mention Russia by name.
A spokesman for the memorial said that damage was caused to the Jewish cemetery at the site but that assessing the full extent of the damage would have to wait until daylight.
The memorial’s chairman, Natan Sharansky, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “seeks to distort and manipulate the Holocaust to justify an illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic country is utterly abhorrent”.
“It is symbolic that he starts attacking Kiev by bombing the site of the Babi Yar, the biggest of Nazi massacres,” he said.
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, expressed “vehement condemnation” and called on the international community to take action “to safeguard civilian lives as well as these historical sites”.
“Rather than being subjected to blatant violence, sacred sites like Babi Yar must be protected,” it said.
Ukrainian fighters test an automatic grenade launcher taken from a destroyed Russian infantry vehicle in Kharkiv. AFP
Refugees from Ukraine rest after arriving at a railway station in Przemysl, Poland. AP
People walk down 17th June Street in Berlin before a rally against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. AP
Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kiev and former heavyweight boxing champion, right, and his brother, Wladimir. AP
Khreshchatyk, Kiev’s main street, lies empty as a curfew comes into effect. AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation from Kiev. AP
On February 27, the seventh anniversary of the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a note stating ‘No to war!’ is placed among flowers on the central Moscow bridge on which he was shot. AFP
A member of the Ukrainian forces, wearing the Guy Fawkes mask popularised by Anonymous, patrols central Kiev. AFP
Sviatoslav Yurash, 26, a politician from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party, poses with his assault rifle as he patrols Kiev. AFP
A Ukrainian serviceman and his dog look at smoke from a burning fuel storage depot after a Russian missile attack near Kiev. EPA
A refugee who fled conflict in Ukraine rests at a railway station after arriving in Zahony, Hungary. AP
A refugee boy who fled Ukraine cries at the railway station in Zahony, Hungary. AP
Civil defence members eat during a break at City Hall in Kiev. AP
An Indian student is embraced by his family at Chennai Airport after returning from Ukraine. EPA
Smoke is seen rising from behind buildings following bombings in Kiev. Getty
An armed civil defence woman holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle while patrolling an empty street in Kiev. AP
A woman fleeing from Ukraine cries as she waits to be taken to a shelter in Zahony, Hungary. Reuters
Ukrainian refugees cross the Romanian border at Siret, northern Romania. EPA
A residential building damaged by shelling in Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine. AFP
Apartments damaged by shelling in Kharkiv. AFP
A girl protests against Russia's military operation in Ukraine, in front of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv. AFP
Young women protest in Tbilisi, Georgia with their hands painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Getty
Supplies for Ukrainian refugees at one of three camps set up at the MoldExpo exhibition center, in Chisinau, Moldova. EPA
Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against Russia's incursion into Ukraine in St Petersburg. AP
A man waits at a bus stop in St Petersburg, which has been with a painted in the colours of Ukraine's national flag. EPA
Russian ground forces approaching Nova Kakhovka, southern Ukraine. AP
A woman holds her daughter's hand as they arrive by bus from the Polish-Ukrainian border. Getty
A man drives his car full of food supplies to deliver to the Ukrainian side of the border, where thousands wait to enter Poland. Getty
Refugees arrive with buses from the Medyka pedestrian border crossing, in Przemsyl, eastern Poland. AFP
People gather to catch a train and leave Ukraine for neighboring countries at the railway station in Lviv, western Ukraine. AP
Cars form a line that stretches 35 kilometres from the Shehyni border crossing to Poland as people try to flee Russia's military operation against Ukraine. Reuters
Helena, right, and her brother Bodia, left, from Lviv, wait at the Medyka border crossing in eastern Poland. AFP
A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck, on a street in Kiev. AP
People run for cover during the shelling on the city of Kiev. AP
A child refugee who fled the conflict in Ukraine covers her face in the event hall of a hotel offering shelter in Siret, Romania. AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holding a briefing in Kyiv. He said that Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan have suggested talks with Russia, which 'can only be welcomed'. AFP
Ukraine's ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, at a news conference in the embassy of Ukraine, Washington. AP
Manchester City footballers wear t-shirts in support of Ukraine before a match. Reuters
Ukrainian refugees arrive in Warsaw by train from Kiev. EPA
A woman waves a Ukrainian flag during a rally in Times Square, New York City. AFP
A man sits next to his dogs in an underground car park turned into a bomb shelter during an air raid alert in Kiev. AP
A woman sleeps on chairs in a Kiev bomb shelter. AP
A satellite image with overlaid graphics shows military vehicles alongside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Reuters
A satellite image shows the effects of shelling in open fields along Soborna Street in the north-east suburbs of Kharkiv. Reuters
A big fire at a petroleum storage depot after a Russian missile attack, in Vasylkiv, near Kiev. EPA
Ukrainian servicemen take positions at a military airbase in the Kyiv region. Reuters
Updated: March 01, 2022, 8:52 PM