Rescuers continue to search Mariupol theater rubble as Russian attacks continue
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 and movement difficult because of shelling and other fighting, there were 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.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.Satellite imagery on Monday from Maxar technology showed huge white letters on the pavement in front of and behind the theater spelling out "CHILDREN" in Russian — "DETI" — to alert warplanes to those inside.Hundreds of civilians had taken refuge in the theater basement and were trapped when strikes collapsed the building onto their shelter.
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