Address of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the Day of Memory of the Tragedy of Babyn Yar
82 years ago, Nazi troops committed a terrible crime by launching a mass shooting of civilians. It was a terrible deliberate crime, the deliberate extermination of people on a national basis.
All these years, the world has remembered this terrible page in history with the understanding that evil will never be revived again.
Unfortunately, today we are witnessing russian terrorists resorting to mass shootings, mass torture and mass graves.
Today, we honor the memory of thousands of innocent victims and call on the international community to be united. United in the fight against evil and consolidated in bringing to justice all those responsible for the crimes committed.
Eternal memory to all the innocent victims of torture...