The Ukraine officials said Tuesday that Russian forces hit the TV tower in the capital city of Kyiv.
Local media reports said Ukranian TV channels stopped broadcasting around 5:30 p.m. local time.
Ukrainian officials said Russian forces also targeted Ukraine’s main Holocaust memorial, among other civilian sites 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.
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