Ukraine marks 80th anniversary of Babi Yar killings under Nazi occupation

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a ceremony at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv (AP)

Ukraine marked the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of the Second World War.

Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is where nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in 1941 when the city was under Nazi occupation.