Russian forces on Tuesday attacked the central square in Kyiv’s main TV tower. The attack on the TV tower killed at least 5, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said. He also accused Moscow of a blatant campaign of terror and vowed: “Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget.”
The President tweeted, “To the world: what is the point of saying «never again for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…”
A TV control room and a power substation were hit, and Ukrainian TV channels stopped broadcasting. A 64-kilometer convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks and other vehicles advanced on Kyiv in what the West feared was a bid by Russian President Vladimir Putin to topple Ukraine’s government and install a Kremlin-friendly regime. And Russian forces pressed their attack on other towns and cities across the country, including at or near the strategic ports of Odesa and Mariupol in the south.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba said that Nazis killed over 33 thousand Jews where the tower was situated.
Day 6 of the ground war in Europe since World War II found Russia increasingly isolated, by tough sanctions that have thrown its economy into turmoil and left the country practically friendless, apart from a few countries like China, Belarus and North Korea.
A senior Western intelligence official, who had been briefed by multiple intelligence agencies, assumed on Tuesday that more than 5,000 Russian soldiers had been killed or kept under watch.