Ukraine's Zelensky Visits Babyn Yar on Massacre Anniversary

By i24
Posted on 09/30/22 | News Source: i24

'Any inhumane regimes pose a threat to all humanity,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial in his country's capital on Thursday to observe the 81st anniversary of the massacre.

The site commemorates the slaughter of Jews in a ravine near Kyiv by the Nazis and their collaborators on Yom Kippur and the day after in 1941. 

Zelensky, who is Jewish, laid flowers and a memorial lamp next to the menorah in honor of the victims.

"Any inhumane regimes pose a threat to all humanity. Criminals who cause such tragedies must be punished so that dictators and tyrants are reluctant to repeat something similar in the future," Zelensky stated.