Russia calls for inquiry into Babi Yar church arson
MOSCOW. Jan 26 (Interfax) - The people responsible for torching a church on the grounds of the Babi Yar national and historic memorial in Kyiv must be held to justice, Moscow says
"We demand a most thorough inquiry into the crime and a strict punishment for those responsible," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary on Monday.
"The Russian Foreign Ministry is outraged by yet another provocation staged by the Ukrainian nationalists against a church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the ground of the Babi Yar National Historical Memorial Reserve. This is not the first attack by Ukraine's nationalist forces on the religious shrines, carried out with full connivance of the government in Kyiv," the commentary said.
"Such a barbaric act looks particularly blasphemous during the days of the 70th anniversary of the liberation by the Red Army of the concentration camp in Oswiecim," the ministry said.