- Title: Eyewitness recalls moment of Kyiv TV tower attack
- Date: 3rd March 2022
- Summary: KYIV, UKRAINE (MARCH 2, 2022) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) KYIV RESIDENT AND TV TOWER ATTACK EYEWITNESS, TYGRAN AMALIAN, SAYING: “So what I did, I was sitting and working here. Here is my window and there is the TV station that was bombed, it is dark now. Yesterday- it’s a bit cloudy and it’s dark, I think they destroyed the electricity there. And I just heard lik
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- Keywords: Kyiv TV tower Russian invasion Ukraine conflict
- Location: KYIV, UKRAINE
- City: KYIV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001173103032022RP1
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- Story Text:Kyiv resident Tygran Amalian was working at home on Tuesday (March 1) when he heard something flying near the city's famous TV tower.
Moments later the 43-year-old medical professional took out his phone and started filming, a series of deadly explosions rocked the TV tower and its surrounding area.
"It was something flying, then it dropped something and the thing went back and this whole area exploded," said Amalian, owner and a medical expert on the evidence-based medicine channel MEDplus.
The attack killed five civilians near Babyn Yar, a memorial site to one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.
Two rockets struck the tower, killing the five who were nearby, said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
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