On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi commemorated the 83rd anniversary of the massacre of more than 30,000 Jews by the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators in the Babyn Jar gorge near Kyiv in 1941.

“Babyn Jar is a terrifying symbol that shows that the most heinous crimes occur when the world chooses to ignore, remain silent, be indifferent and lacks the determination to stand up to evil,” Zelensky, who is of Jewish descent himself, said on the X social network.

According to official data, 100,000 – 150,000 people were killed in the Babyn Jar gorge in 1941 and 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. The primany targets were Jews and Roma.

• Ukrajina si pripomenula masaker v rokline Babyn Jar z roku 1941. Zomreli státisíce ľudí. In: HNOnline. 29.092024. https://hnonline.sk/svet/96171585-ukrajina-si-pripomenula-masaker-v-rokline-babyn-jar-z-roku-1941-zomreli-statisice-ludi