“According to preliminary data, five people were killed and five others injured” in this attack, which also led to the interruption of the broadcast of the channels, the service said on its Facebook page.
The strike, which comes on the sixth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 'hit' equipment at the tower, which is located not far from Babi Yar, site of one of the Holocaust's worst massacres , said the Ministry of the Interior.
The ministry had warned that television channels would not work "for a while" until backup systems took over.
A photograph released by the Home Office showed the tower shrouded in thick gray smoke.
The main structure of the building, however, was still standing.
Shortly before the strike, the Russian army announced that it was going to target the infrastructure of the Ukrainian security services as well as "retransmission centers" in Kiev and therefore called on civilians living nearby to flee.
The television tower targeted Tuesday is in the same neighborhood as the site of Babi Yar, a ravine where the Nazis shot dead more than 30,000 Jews in two days in 1941. This place is now an important place of memory.
A firefighter extinguishes the charred bodies of passers-by killed by a Russian strike on the Kiev TV tower, March 1, 2022 Sergei SUPINSKY AFP
"What's the point of saying + never again + for 80 years, if the world is silent when a bomb falls on this same site of Babi Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeats itself...", tweeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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