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Mar 17 5 tweets 4 min read
#BREAKING 'More than a thousand' were sheltering in bombed Ukraine theatre: local official
#UPDATE Ukraine says Russia destroyed a theatre with over a thousand people inside, with the toll as yet unknown.

"Today, the invaders destroyed the Drama Theatre. A place, where more than a thousand people found refuge. We will never forgive this," Mariupol local council says
VIDEO: Tram ride through wartime Kyiv.

Yelena Sabirova's tram line is one of the few still trundling through the maze of Kyiv's barricades and checkpoints

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Ukraine accuses Russia of bombing a theatre sheltering over 1,000 civilians in Mariupol.

President Biden brands Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" and US responds to latest assaults on civilians across Ukraine by pledging $1 billion in new weapons for Kyiv

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In 2013 he achieved one of the great shocks in tennis history, knocking defending champion Roger Federer out of Wimbledon.

Today, Ukranian player Sergiy Stakhovsky is a volunteer fighter on military patrol in Kyiv, which he vows to defend "to the end"

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