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Mar 17 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
🔺 Update: Sick children sought refuge inside amid brutal siege of city thetimes.co.uk/article/us-to-…
🔺 Update: The bomb shelter underneath Mariupol’s theatre withstood the blast of the Russian bomb that hit it, according to an official

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He added that “there are survivors”, although rescue efforts were ongoing and it was impossible to give the number of casualties
The theatre was destroyed in the bombing raid, prompting fears for the civilians thought to be inside
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, and the city council accused Russia of a “war crime” for the “deliberate and cynical” strike
Russia denied having targeted the theatre and claimed that “Ukrainian nationalists” blew it up but supplied no evidence
📷 The Ukrainian foreign minister said these pictures showed the theatre before and after Russian bombing
The authorities initially said that as many as 1,200 people had been sheltering in the theatre from the intense Russian bombardment, which according to local estimates has already claimed more than 2,100 lives. The 1,200 figure was later reduced to “several hundred”
Britain and other western powers called an emergency UN security council meeting for today to discuss “Russian war crimes”
Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukraine had to accept it would never join Nato. However, he added that a path would remain open for it to join the European Union

thetimes.co.uk/article/zelens…
📹 Watch: Yesterday the Ukrainian leader addressed members of the US Congress by video, earning a standing ovation as he pleaded for more weapons, if not a no-fly zone, to protect his country

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🔺 JUST IN: A theatre where civilians were sheltering in the besieged city of Mariupol has been destroyed by Russian bombing thetimes.co.uk/article/us-to-…
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