About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week that blasted open a Mariupol theater, Ukrainian authorities said in what would make it the war's deadliest known attack on civilians yet.
KYIV, Ukraine -- About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week on a Mariupol theater that was being used as a shelter, Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war's deadliest known attack on civilians yet.
That could signal an important narrowing of Moscow's military objectives. The Donbas is the largely Russian-speaking eastern part of the country where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces since 2014 and where many residents have expressed support for Moscow. U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Friday the theater bombing was an"absolute shock, particularly given the fact that it was so clearly a civilian target." He said it showed"a brazen disregard for the lives of innocent people."
He said Putin's efforts to break Ukraine's will to resist are having the opposite effect:"What he's getting in response is an even more determined Ukrainian army and an ever more united West in supporting Ukraine." "And the goals are not hidden," he said."They are declared publicly - to destroy, break, annihilate, strangle the Russian economy and Russia on the whole."
But the misery for civilians is growing more severe in Ukrainian towns and cities, which increasingly resemble the ruins that Russian forces left behind in their campaigns in Syria and Chechnya. Tens of thousands of people have left Mariupol in the past week, most of them driving out in private cars through dozens of Russian checkpoints.
In Kyiv, ashes of the dead are piling up at the main crematorium in the capital because so many relatives have left, leaving urns unclaimed. And the northern city of Chernihiv is all but cut off.
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