Kyiv, March 1 : Russian forces on Tuesday bombed a holocaust memorial to one of the largest massacres in history as Vladimir Putin’s forces intensified it’s assault here in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Chief of Staff confirmed in a tweet that a missile hit the Kyiv park where the Babyn Yar memorial is located. Zelensky said: “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?” “Russian troops fired on the TV tower near Babyn Yar… Russian criminals do not stop at anything in their barbarism. Russia = barbarian,” MFA of Ukraine tweeted. Russia’s forces intensified their assault on the Ukrainian capital on Day 6 of their invasion as a miles-long convoy of assault vehicles was spotted by satellites, headed towards Kyiv. “Kyiv TV tower, which has just been hit by a Russian missile, is situated on the territory of Babyn Yar. On September 29-30, 1941, Nazis killed over 33 thousand Jews here. 80 years later, Russian Nazis strike this same land to exterminate Ukrainians. Evil and barbaric,” Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said in a tweet. Following the attack many Ukrainian TV channels went off air. The base of the TV tower contains a small park where several memorials including the Monument to the gypsies killed by the Nazis are based. Launching the assault on February 24, Putin said he was ‘de-nazifying’ Ukraine, despite it being the only country in Europe with both a Jewish president and prime minister. Babyn Yar is widely considered to be one of the bloodiest massacres in the Holocaust, as well as a mass grave for tens of thousands of Jews and Russians killed by the Nazis between 1941 and 1942. Over a million Jewish Ukrainians were killed during the Holocaust, including several of Zelensky’s ancestors. (UNI)