Russian forces damage Holocaust memorial near Kharkiv

Russian forces have broken a Holocaust memorial close to town of Kharkiv, Ukraine's Ministry of Protection stated.
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The Russian army broken a Holocaust memorial close to town of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s Ministry of Protection stated in a tweet.

“Russian invaders fired on and broken Holocaust Memorial in Drobitsky Yar on the outskirts of Kharkiv. The Nazis have returned. Precisely 80 years later,” the ministry stated whereas additionally sharing a picture of the monument Saturday.

The tweet additionally tagged Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has acted as a mediator throughout the battle, assembly with each Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine is house to greater than 200,000 Jewish residents, which is likely one of the largest populations outdoors of Israel.

“Russia continues to assault not solely the civilian inhabitants of #Ukraine but in addition the locations of remembrance. Russians shelled one other Holocaust memorial,” the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Middle in Kyiv tweeted.

Ukraine is house to greater than 200,000 Jewish residents.

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The memorial was in honor of the 15,000 Jews who died within the Nazi invasion.

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Ukraine’s Ministry of Protection referred to the Russian invaders as “Nazis.”

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The memorial was in-built 2002 in remembrance of 15,000 Jews who had been shot by the Nazi invasion in December 1941, in keeping with Enterprise Insider. It's the second Holocaust memorial web site to be bombed throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine.