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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Israel tries to balance backing for Ukrainians and not offending Russia

Israeli and Ukrainian flags at a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv
Israeli and Ukrainian flags at a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv on Saturday. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

A week ago the sight was unthinkable: a memorial at the site of one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust, engulfed in smoke and flame from an airstrike.

Yet on Tuesday a Russian attack near the Babyn Yar memorial complex in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, achieved exactly that. Five people died in the strike targeting the television broadcast tower next door, while firefighters battled to extinguish a fire caused by the explosion in a building inside the Jewish cemetery.

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