Videos verified by The Washington Post show extensive damage to the theater.
that showed it full of families and children. In the video, which The Post reviewed, young children are seen playing and a baby can be heard crying. A narrator says more than a thousand people are inside, including sick children.“There is pain and hurt here,” he says. “It is hard here. Please help us. Please stop all of this.”
Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional administration, where Mariupol is located, said that the fate of the several hundred residents who were in the theater is still “unknown” because the entrance to the building is blocked by rubble. Kyrylenko posted images of the aftermath on and said the strike was deliberately targeting civilians at the Mariupol theater and a swimming pool, which was also hit.Advertisementthe strike “raises serious concerns that it was disproportionate, indiscriminate and potentially a war crime.”
The American firm Maxar Technologies captured satellite photographs of the theater on Monday, two days before the attack. In them, in large Russian type on both sides of the theater, the word “children” is visible from above.War in Ukraine: What you need to know
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