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Good morning. Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine that you may have missed overnight.Authorities in the besieged port city of Mariupol say Russian forces bombed a theatre where"hundreds" of civilians were taking shelter. The building was clearly marked"children" according to aerial photos. The death toll is not yet known.Ukraine says 10 people were killed after coming under fire while queueing for bread in the northern city of Chernigiv.
Officials across Ukraine are struggling to count the civilian dead -- with authorities saying 103 children have been killed since the invasion began -- who have been targeted in homes, hospitals, ambulances and food queues. Satellite images of the theatre on March 14 shared by private satellite company Maxar showed the words"children" clearly etched out in the ground in Russian on either side of the building.Thirteen buses carrying around 300 refugees from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol have arrived in Russia's Rostov region, Russia's Interfax news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Thursday.
Officials posted a photo of the theatre building, whose middle part was completely destroyed, with thick white smoke rising from the rubble. Officials said a bomb was dropped on the building from an airplane. Russia's defence ministry denied that its forces bombed the city on Wednesday and stated the building was destroyed in an explosion set off by Ukraine's nationalist Azov battalion.
Five people, including three children, were killed when Russian forces shelled a residential building in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, emergency officials said Wednesday. Ukraine's military, backed by heavy flow of Western weapons, has fought back, largely stalling the Russian advance. Russian troops have turned increasingly to bombardments of civilians, prompting three million Ukrainians to become refugees. Russian investigators on Wednesday launched the first criminal cases under a new law against spreading"false information" about Russia's military operation in Ukraine.
The probes were based on information from the FSB secret service and the suspects' homes had been searched and restrictions placed on their movements, it added. "It includes 800 anti-aircraft systems to make sure that the Ukrainian military can continue to stop the planes and helicopters that have been attacking their people," Biden said.Poland say it has collected more than 300 witness statements on war in Ukraine
"I think this is only the beginning of retaliatory measures to the information war unleashed by the West against Russia," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram. Roskomnadzor listed the BBC News website as blocked in Russia.Ukraine accuses Russia of firing rockets at convoy of Mariupol evacuees, wounding child
Reuters could not immediately confirm their authenticity."Heavy artillery of the enemy forces fired on a convoy of civilians moving along the highway towards Zaporizhzhia," said governor Oleksandr Starukh in an online post. The judges added that Russia must also ensure that other forces under its control or supported by Moscow should not continue the military operation.
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