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Mariupol's beloved drama theatre lies in ruins as locals fear the Ukrainian city will never recover from Russia's assault

The building at the heart of Mariupol lies in ruins, with hundreds of civilians trapped under rubble. With "80 to 90 per cent" of buildings now destroyed, the city's locals become aware that life may never be the same again.

ABC News

Little progress at talks as Russia bombards Ukrainian cities

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under renewed Russian shelling on Thursday as negotiators deem talks ‘complicated’.

Al Jazeera

Inside Ukraine's city of hell where lost children buried in mass grave

Airstrikes and shells relentlessly pound Mariupol about one a minute. This southern seaport of has become a symbol of Vladimir Putin’s drive to crush Ukraine but also of a fierce resistance

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Civilian targets under heavy fire as Ukraine war enters fourth week

KYIV, Ukraine — Rescuers began to pull survivors Thursday from the rubble of a nighttime airstrike on a theater where more than 1,000 people had sheltered in the besieged port city of Mariupol, as Russia’s war on Ukraine entered its fourth week with no sign of a respite and a…

Los Angeles Times

Gran in tears fearing her loved ones are dead after Russian troops obliterate theatre

Ukrainian Nina Slastian, 53, has been unable to contact her friends and family for three weeks and is desperate to know if they are still alive after Russia bombed the theatre in Mariupol

Daily Mirror

US: Russia Launches Over 1,000 Missiles Since Start of Ukraine Invasion

Russia has fired more than 1,000 missiles at Ukrainian targets since the start of its invasion, which has now entered its fourth week, a senior US defense official said on Thursday. Rescue workers were searching for survivors in the rubble of a theater in the besieged city of Mariupol on…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Live From Ukraine, March 17: Mariupol Official Says 'Nothing Works' In Besieged City

Valentyna Zakharchuk is a Ukrainian citizen who will provide daily on-the-ground updates of the Russian invasion for Benzinga. Southeast Ukraine: In Mariupol, the only hospital that still accepts people is on the verge of collapse. Doctors said that disconnecting a medical facility from electricity will be fatal for many patients.

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About 30 Turks remain sheltering in Mariupol mosque

While about 50 Turkish citizens have escaped the besieged city in recent days, about 30 remain.

Al Jazeera

Russia Ukraine War Advisory

Rescuers are searching for survivors in the wreckage of a theater ripped apart by Russian airstrikes in the besieged city of Mariupol, while ferocious Russian bombardment killed dozens in a northern city over the past day.

The Independent UK

Ukrainian city of Mariupol says number of possible casualties at theatre is unclear

Authorities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol said on Thursday it was still not possible to estimate the number of possible casualties from what they said was an air strike on a theatre where hundreds of people were believed to have been sheltering.

Reuters

Hopes raised that theatre shelling victims survived

It did not take next-generation satellite technology to see the large signs, in Russian, which spelled out ‘children’. But the Donetsk Regional Theatre of Drama in the besieged city of Mariupol, a makeshift shelter for more than 1,000 women and children – many of whose homes had already been flattened…

Evening Standard

Russia-Ukraine war: Survivors emerge from bombed Mariupol theatre

Officials say some survivors rescued from basement of building bombed by Russian forces in southeastern Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Aid agencies race to get food supplies to Ukrainian cities at risk of siege

Efforts to stock up Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro are under way as the wider repercussions of the conflict are felt in Yemen and Lebanon

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine’s Mariupol: a rare dispatch from a city under Russian siege; despair, death everywhere

Families have been told to leave their dead in the streets because it’s too dangerous to hold funerals. This southern seaport of 430,000 has become a symbol of Russia President Vladimir Putin’s drive to crush democratic Ukraine — and also of a fierce resistance on the ground.

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Red Cross urges safe passage for people, aid in Ukraine's Mariupol

The International Committee of the Red Cross called on the warring parties on Thursday to let people leave the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol safely and to allow aid in.

The Independent UK

Fourth Russian general killed in Ukraine, claims president Zelensky

Leader of southeastern unit, major general Oleg Mityaev, said to have been killed in attempt on Mariupol

Evening Standard

Evening Standard Comment: Zelensky and Putin — a tale of two speeches

There were giant signs spelled out in Russian for any pilot to see: “children”. Yet a Mariupol theatre, in which more than 1,000 women and children were sheltering, was bombed anyway. Now it is mere rubble.

The Independent UK

Satellite imagery shows bombed theatre and burning buildings across Ukraine

An image of a theatre in Mariupol that was later attacked shows the Russian word for ‘children’ written in large white letters on the ground outside.

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The Guardian - UK

Survivors leaving basement of Mariupol theatre after airstrike, say officials

Number of casualties unclear after strike on building where hundreds of people were hiding in basement

Wales Online

Ukraine lunchtime briefing: Theatre air strike 'specific targeting' of civilian building, says minister

James Cleverly said it was a 'self-evident breach of international law'

Wales Online

The picture of a Ukrainian theatre that will break your heart and shame Russia

The death toll from the attack is still unknown

Daily Mirror

All Russia's most barbaric war crimes - from theatre bombing to bread queue massacre

Horrific scenes of bombed out buildings and street fighting have been played out in recent days in the southern city of Mariupol - while a convoy of Russian vehicles continues its approach to Kyiv

The Independent UK

Russian air strike appeared to target civilian building in Mariupol – Cleverly

The Foreign Office minister said the Russian attack in the besieged Ukrainian city appeared to have breached international conflict rules.

The Independent UK

Ukraine defence minister calls Vladimir Putin the ‘Hitler of our time’

Nazi comparison is no ‘exaggeration’, says Reznikov

The Independent UK

Doubts cast for first time over whether Russia will launch assault on Kyiv

‘I think it’s a question as to whether Moscow now intends to try to assault Kyiv,’ says a senior western official

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