Jewish groups condemn attack on Ukrainian Holocaust memorial
Several Jewish groups condemned Russia for a missile attack that struck a Ukrainian Holocaust memorial.
The missiles struck the site of the Babyn Yar massacre where 33,000 Jewish men, women and children were killed in September 1941.
The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum in Poland tweeted, "It’s hard to expect the Russian army to respect the dead if it is not capable of respecting human lives."
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum noted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the site last year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the event.
"We stand with him and the Ukrainian people during these critical times," the museum said in a statement.
Israel’s Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, called on the international community to protect sites such as Babyn Yar as well as the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.
"Rather than being subjected to blatant violence, sacred sites like Babi Yar must be protected," Yad Vashem said in a statement.
-ABC News' Conor Finnegan