War In Ukraine Day 22: Fog Of War Is Thinning - South Front
Detailed deconstruction -- important read:
The Update in the above report:
Update 18:00 UTC
AP has just published a funny story on the search for casualties of the 'airstrike'. The funny thing? There ain't any:
Rescuers searched for survivors Thursday in the ruins of a theater blown apart by a Russian airstrike in the besieged city of Mariupol, while scores of Ukrainians across the country were killed in ferocious urban attacks on a school, a hostel and other sites.Hundreds of civilians had been taking shelter in the grand, columned theater in central Mariupol after their homes were destroyed in three weeks of fighting in the southern port city of 430,000.
More than a day after the airstrike, there were no reports of deaths. With communications disrupted across the city, there were also conflicting reports on whether anyone had emerged from the rubble.
“We hope and we think that some people who stayed in the shelter under the theater could survive,” Petro Andrushchenko, an official with the mayor’s office, told The Associated Press. He said the building had a relatively modern basement bomb shelter designed to withstand airstrikes.
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Other officials had said earlier that some people had gotten out. Ukraine’s ombudswoman, Ludmyla Denisova, said on the Telegram messaging app that the shelter had held up.Meanwhile refugees who escaped from Mariupol to the Russian side tell journalists that they were held back from getting out earlier by the Ukrainian militia and that it were the Azov Nazis who blew up the theater.
Russian Embassy, UK @RussianEmbassy - 17:28 UTC · Mar 17, 2022Refugee from #Mariupol says militants from Azov nationalist battalion, while retreating, blew up the city drama theatre, where there were civilians, whom they used as human shield. Militants also deployed military equipment near bomb shelters and residential buildings.@mfa_russia
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Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine: NEWSNIGHT - YouTube - BBC Report, February 28, 2014
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