Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia, which has begun an invasion of his nation, on Wednesday of attempting to “obliterate” Ukrainians, their land, and their history. In a video speech, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated that a missile assault on a location near the site of a Holocaust slaughter demonstrates that “for many people in Russia, our Kyiv is entirely alien.”

The Tuesday night attack destroyed Kyiv’s primary television mast, which was erected near Babi Yar, the site of World War II’s largest massacre of Kyiv Jews and a place of memory and pilgrimage.

According to Ukrainian police, five persons were killed in the hit itself, and the significance of the site highlighted the Russian danger to Ukrainian identity for Zelensky.

“They know nothing about our capital. About our history. But they have an order to erase our history. Erase our country. Erase us all,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated about President Vladimir Putin’s invasion force to Ukraine.