Rescue workers have been digging survivors out of the rubble of a theatre which was reportedly bombed in a Russian airstrike in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to officials
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Prior to Wednesday's attack, up to 1,000 men, women and children were thought to have taken shelter in the Drama Theatre's basement seeking safety from the onslaught by President Vladimir Putin's forces. Mariupol has suffered the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the three-week war, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in basements with no food, water or power.Ukraine's ombudswoman Ludmyla Denisova said on the Telegram messaging app:"The building withstood the impact of a high-powered air bomb and protected the lives of people hiding in the bomb shelter.""People are coming out alive," Mr Taruta wrote on Facebook, though he did not say how many.
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