Zelensky sends a message in Hebrew to the Jews of the world... and an Israeli journalist denies targeting "Babi Yar"

Yesterday, Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a message in Hebrew to Jews around the world, denying an Israeli journalist who is currently in Kyiv about what he said about Babi Yar.

“We were all bombed last night in Kyiv, and we all died again in Babi Yar from a missile attack,” Zelensky said in a Hebrew post on Telegram, even though the world constantly promises “never again,” referring to a site commemorating the victims of Nazi massacres. "The Holocaust" in the suburbs of Kyiv.

"Babi Yar is a place of special importance in Kyiv and in Europe. A place of prayer. A memorial site for thousands and hundreds of thousands of people killed by the Nazis, the place of the ancient cemeteries in Kyiv. Why would they turn such a place into a target for a missile attack? You kill," Zelensky continued. Victims of the Holocaust once again," according to the official Israeli Kan channel.

The Ukrainian president, who is of Jewish descent, added, "I now appeal to all the Jews of the world - do you not see what is happening? Therefore, it is very important that millions of Jews around the world do not remain silent now in front of these scenes. Because Nazism was born in silence. Scream against the killing of civilians, against the killing of Ukrainians".

However, the veteran Israeli journalist Ron Ben-Yishai, who is currently in Kyiv as a correspondent for the newspaper "Yediot Aharonot", gave a different version of what Zelensky said.

"The memorial site at Babi Yar was neither targeted nor damaged," Ben Yishai wrote in a report in the newspaper on Wednesday. "After my tour around the great site, I can say with certainty that no memorial was damaged and no bomb, missile or shell fell on Region".

"The closest hit to Babi Yar was in the radio and television tower complex in Kyiv, about 300 meters from the new monument and about one kilometer from the old monument to the massacres of World War II," he added.

The 79-year-old Israeli journalist continued: “Yesterday the Ukrainian government spread misinformation about the damage to the site, including the antiquities and the Jewish burial area. All this I saw with my own eyes after a comprehensive walking tour of the place, all these allegations do not correspond to reality. ".

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