On March 1, 2022, Russia launched a series of airstrikes on the Kyiv TV tower. This military attack was not strategically decisive nor the deadliest one. However, its symbolic significance is hard to underestimate: the strikes targeted Ukrainian communication infrastructure and landed in the vicinity of Babyn Yar, where one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust took place.

The Ukrainian group Center for Spatial Technologies and Forensic Architecture gathered dozens of videos, maps and archival materials in order to study how these strikes hit not only media and communication networks but, a tangled nervous system of historical references and repressed memories.

Our analysis records civilian deaths and the destruction brought about by the Russian strikes at the Kyiv TV tower. It also addresses the history of violence and genocide that occurred on this very land before, buried under layers of earth, and of negation.

Forensic Architecture:
Eyal Weizman (PI)
Samaneh Moafi (PC)
Sergio Beltran Garcia (R)
Loic Kessler (Video Editing)
Sarah Nankivell & Bob Trafford & Elizabeth Breiner (Project Support)

Center for Spatial Technologies (CST):
Maksym Rokmaniko
Mykola Holovko
Natasha Pereverzina
Denys Horodnyak
Daryna Vilkhova
Orest Yaremchuk

Thanks to:
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC)
Nastia Chaur
Svitlana Usychenko
Luciano Brina
Chris Cobb-Smith
Robert Jan Van Pelt

Collaborators: Inferstudio (Nathan Su)

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