Apparent Russian strikes have hit the main television and radio tower in Kyiv, as well as a memorial to the site where Nazis killed thousands of Jews during World War II. Ukraine's foreign ministry confirmed the attack in a tweet, in which it equated Russia with barbarism, NPR reports.

The State Emergency Service said five people were killed and another five injured in the attack on the Kyiv TV tower. Backup broadcasting of some channels was switched on in the near future, and broadcasting was temporarily moved to the regional multiplex.

The tower is located near the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, where Nazis killed nearly 34.000 Jews over a 36-hour period in September 1941. The center says Nazis shot between 70.000 and 100.000 people at Babyn Yar, including nearly all of Kyiv's Jewish population, between 1941 and 1943.

It had issued a statement earlier Tuesday strongly condemning Russia's actions, characterizing them as a crime against humanity and calling Russia "the biggest instigator and initiator of war in the 21st century."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the Russian strikes in a tweet in which he confirmed five people had been killed, but did not specify at which location.

"To the world: What is the point of saying never again for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?" he wrote. "History repeating..."