Presidents attend ceremony for Babi Yar massacre

The presidents of Ukraine, Israel and Germany attended a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of one of the worst atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust - the Babi Yar massacre.

Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed over the course of just two days in Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, when the city was under Nazi occupation in 1941.

Addressing a memorial ceremony in honor of the victims, Ukrainian President labelled the massacre a "black and frightful page of world history." His Israeli counterpart began his address with a prayer, saying that "eighty years ago there was no one left here to pray."

German President warned that anti-Semitism was on the rise in Germany. The three leaders inaugurated a memorial centre dedicated to Eastern European Jews who were killed and buried in mass graves during the Holocaust.