A theater in Mariupol with hundreds sheltering inside was hit by a Russian airstrike. Satellite imagery showed the word “CHILDREN” had been written in large white letters in Russian in front of and behind the building. FOX13
announced an additional $800 million for Ukraine's military and said Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "war criminal."
A view of a building, damaged as a result of shelling of the city by Russian missiles in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional administration wrote on Telegram late Wednesday that "several hundred" residents were sheltering in the Drama Theater when it was hit and that the entrance is buried under rubble. The official said the airstrike also hit the Neptune swimming pool complex, burying women and children.
In Kharkiv, doctors are struggling to treat COVID-19 patients as the bombs fall outside. Several times a day, air raid sirens wail at a local hospital, sending virus patients — some connected to ventilators and struggling to breathe — into bomb shelters. Just before the war, Russia recognized the independence of two regions controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and extended the borders of those regions to areas Ukraine had continued to hold, including Mariupol.
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