Amid a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, video from Kyiv on March 1 showed multiple missiles strike near Babyn Yar, a memorial commemorating one of the bloodiest single mass killings of Jews in the Holocaust. Plumes of flame and smoke erupted from the site, killing five civilians in an apparent effort to take down a nearby TV tower, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The shockwaves of the explosions rippled out across the world all the way to Beverly Hills, one of the only Jewish majority cities in the United States. That night, motivated in part by the potent symbolism of the rocket attack on Babyn Yar, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution condemning Russia in uncompromising terms and standing in solidarity with Ukraine.
