The Ukrainian city, now under attack by Russia, was targeted by Hitler during the German onslaught of World War II.
As they gathered at the building, two massive explosions rocked the first and third floors.
“Circumstances require us to act resolutely,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said of his attack on Ukraine.As the German army gradually encircled the area around Kyiv, the Russian forces were forbidden to retreat. “And those were only a few from our immediate area,” the soldier wrote. “Blood was literally running down the side from the floorboards of the truck, and the driver ... was white as a sheet.”“Shells were still flying about, but we were ordered to get ready to march, not for retreat, but en route to Kiev,” he wrote.
Some Germans exulted: “There ought to be some newsreel men here,” one soldier wrote in his diary. “There would be incomparable picture material!”“All around, wherever you look there are German tanks, submachine guns or machine gun nests,” a Russian officer wrote. “Our unit has already been defending on all sides for four days within this circle of fire. At night the surrounding ring is clear to see, illuminated by fire that lights up the horizon.
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