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Ukraine crisis: Russia forces kills 5 in attack on Kyiv TV tower

Ukraine's State Service for Emergency Situations said the strikes on the TV tower killed five people and left five more wounded

A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck, on a street in Kyiv (Photo: AP/PTI)

A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck, on a street in Kyiv (Photo: AP/PTI)

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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.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Mar 01 2022 | 11:11 PM IST

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