Israel's Holocaust museum condemns attack on memorial site
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial has condemned the rocket attack on a TV tower in Kyiv which damaged a nearby Holocaust memorial.
The museum, which is dedicated to remembering the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War Two, voiced its "vehement condemnation" to what it called a "deadly Russian attack on the vicinity of the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site".
"We call on the international community to take concerted measures to safeguard civilian lives as well as these historical sites because of their irreplaceable value for research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust," it said.
Israel's Foreign Minister in a statement called for "the sanctity of the site to be preserved and honoured", but did not condemn Russia for the attack.
The memorial is built on Europe's largest mass grave of the Holocaust, where Nazi death squads killed more than 33,000 Jewish people in the space of just two days in 1941.
While it has condemned the invasion and voiced solidarity with Kyiv, Israel has said it is keeping open channels of communication with Moscow in hope of helping to ease the crisis.