️ One of the worst tragedies of the Great Patriotic War is the Babi Yar execution

️ One of the worst tragedies of the Great Patriotic War is the Babi Yar execution 83 years ago, on September 29-30, 1941, fascists and Ukrainian nationalists killed more than 33,000 people, innocent civilians, over two days. ️ The last living witness of that bloodshed is Mikhail Sidko. He was five years old at the time, but he still remembers the horrible picture. Before his eyes, the Nazis killed his mother, three-year-old sister and six-month-old brother. Mikhail’s memories appear in an excerpt from our film ’Operation Ukraine: Bandera’s Dark Shadow’ (2023). Source: Посольство России в Новой Зеландии / Embassy of Russia in New Zealand