Satellite images of the destruction in Ukraine continue to roll in.
This photo, taken by Maxar Technologies’ WorldView-2 satellite on March 14, 2022, shows the world"children" written in front of and behind a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. According to news reports, the theater was bombed by Russian forces on March 16, 2022.image of a now-destroyed theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol shows the word"children" in Russian written in front of and behind the building.
Ukrainian officials said that roughly 1,000 people were inside the Drama Theater of Mariupol during its destruction Wednesday , and it was unclear how many had survived, according to a Thursday report in"Pavlo Kyrylenko, the top Ukrainian official in the Donetsk region, blamed a Russian airstrike for the destruction. Russia's Defense Ministry denied carrying out the attack," The Times wrote.
Mariupol has been besieged for weeks by Russian forces, and residents of the city are said to be lacking food, water, heat and electricity, according to numerous news reports. on Feb. 24 to international condemnation, prompting the imposition of economic sanctions by the United States and other countries.
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