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In the spring of 2022, Russia bombed the drama theater in Mariupol, where women and children were hiding. Now she is restoring him
The site is promised to open by the end of the year. Photos
The Russian air bomb destroyed the Mariupol Drama Theater on March 16, 2022. The Russian authorities denied that her troops bombed the theater, but independent investigations of journalists and human rights activists confirmed the opposite. About a thousand civilians took refuge in the theater - mainly women and children. The exact number of victims of the attack is still unknown: according to the initial statements of the Ukrainian authorities, about 300 people were killed, the Associated Press agency called the figure of 600 victims, in a later investigation of Amnesty International confirmed the death of 12 people, noting that probably the dead were much more dead . The authorities of the self -proclaimed DPR declared 14 discovered bodies. OSCEcalled the shelling of the theater a war crime. A few days after the bombing, the theaters of different countriesstaged a rally of solidarity with Ukraine, writing the word “children” before the entrance - the same inscriptions surrounded the building of the Mariupol dramatic. Russia captured Mariupol exactly two months after the attack on the theater. In December 2022, the occupation authorities began to demolish part of the building. Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko then expressed the opinion that in this way Russia is trying to destroy the evidence of a war crime. In these photographs, the reconstruction of the Mariupol Theater.
Since the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion, we publish pictures every day showing what the war looks like. As many of you could notice, more often we have photos shot in Ukraine and from the Ukrainian side of the front. This has a reason: independent journalists continue to work in Ukraine (although there they are faced with pressure from the authorities), but there are almost no left in Russia. Nevertheless, we try to collect all available evidence.
