War in Ukraine: what we know about the bombing of the Mariupol theater – BFMTV

A theater housing “hundreds of civilians” was targeted on Wednesday by a Russian airstrike in Mariupol. “The number of victims is still unknown,” said President Zelensky overnight. “A horrible war crime.” On Twitter on Wednesday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba denounced the bombardment of the Mariupol theater by the Russian army. Announced at the end of the day by the town hall of south-eastern Ukraine, the bombardment of this theater is the highlight of this 21st day of the Russian invasion. dropped a bomb on the building where hundreds of civilians were sheltering. It is impossible to establish the toll immediately because the bombardments of the residential areas continue, “wrote the town hall on Telegram at the end of the day. During the night, AFP indicated that the human toll was still undetermined. At least a thousand people were inside the theater, report our colleagues from the BBC. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, the building was “totally destroyed”. . The photo was taken on Monday, according to the company. According to the photo seen by AFP, the word “children” was written on the ground, in huge white letters and in Russian, in front and behind the building, to signal their presence to potential fighter pilots. “The Russians couldn’t not know!” launched Dmytro Kuleba.• Zelensky denounces a “deliberate” actIn the night from Wednesday to Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also accused Moscow. “Russian aircraft deliberately dropped a bomb on a theater in the city center,” he said in a video posted on social media. “Hundreds of people were hiding there to escape the shelling. The building is destroyed. The number of casualties is still unknown. My heart is broken.”• Moscow denies bombing the theatreThe Russian Defense Ministry has denied bombing the theatre, blaming the Ukrainian nationalist Azov battalion for the explosion. Moscow had already blamed this military unit during the bombing of the Mariupol maternity hospital last week, which sparked an international outcry.