The shelling of Russian troops in the theater Drama, in the Ukrainian city of Mariupolon March 16 would have settled with about 300 dead. This was stated this Friday by sources from the town hall of the town, citing witnesses.
The consistory has clarified that it is not yet possible to determine the exact number of deceased. The Ukrainian government had so far refused to carry out a balance because the chaos and the practically constant bombardment by Russian forces made it impossible to carry out a count.
“Witnesses have informations according to which some 300 people died at theater from Mariupol after a Russian bombardment. Until the end we refuse to believe this horror, we want to think that everyone left unscathed. But the testimonials of those who were inside the building at the time of this terrorist act say what contrary“, wrote the mayor of Mariúpol in his account in the Telegram application.
For her part, the head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in UkraineMatilda Bogner said her team had been unable to obtain enough information to verify the death toll at the theater. “We have less and less information from there (Mariupol) and in this specific case we are still trying to verify the details,” she added.
130 rescued
Official sources in Ukraine said a few days ago that about 130 people had been rescued of the ruins and that the basement of the building had resisted the attack.
On March 16, the Russian Army bombed the drama theater from Mariupolwhere hundreds of people took refuge of the attacks – a total of 1,300, according to the Ukrainian authorities. Among them were women and children. In fact, in the garden it was written, in large letters and in Russian, the word ‘children’ for avoid being white of military offensives.
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The city of Mariupol, where 400,000 people lived before the war, is one of the most besieged by the Army of Moscow since the beginning of the invasion, on February 24. The authorities have denounced days ago that they are without electricity, gas or water. In addition, as reported this Friday by the head of the UN mission, they have more and more evidence through satellite images of the existence of common pits in this population.
Russia, which has denied on more than one occasion having attacked civilian targets, seeks to gain control of Mariupol due to its importance at a strategic level, in order to unite the pro-Russian provinces of the donbas with the peninsula crimeaannexed by Moscow in 2014.
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