Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned the Russian attack on the TV tower in Kyiv near the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial as an attack on Ukrainian history.

"For any normal person who knows our history, world history, Babyn Yar is a special part of Kyiv," he said in a video message on Wednesday.

This shows that Kyiv is foreign to the absolute majority of Russians.

“They know nothing about our capital.

About our history,” said the President.

Now Russia is trying to erase Ukrainian history.

The day before, two rockets allegedly hit the Kyiv TV tower in the immediate vicinity of Babyn Yar.

Officials say five passers-by were killed and five others injured.

In September 1941, after the invasion of Kyiv, German troops shot more than 33,000 Jews in Babyn Yar.

Selenskyj has Jewish roots.

Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled the Ukrainian leadership as Nazis.

On the first day of the Russian war against Ukraine last Thursday, the city of Uman was attacked from the air, Zelensky said.

"Hundreds of thousands of Jews come there every year to pray," he said.

In Uman in the Cherkassy region is the grave of Rabbi Nachman, to which tens of thousands of Hasids make a pilgrimage every year for the Jewish New Year.

"What's next if Babyn Yar (has already been bombed)?" asked Zelenskyy.

"The Saint Sophia Cathedral?

The Lavra?

Andrew's Church?" he listed Kyiv's sights.