‘Adults and children are emerging’: Survivors are pulled from the rubble of a theater in Mariupol.
Rescuers on Thursday began pulling some survivors from the wreckage of a theater in the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol that was struck a day earlier by a Russian attack, according to an adviser to the city’s mayor.
But more than 24 hours after the attack it was still not clear how many people survived at the site, the Drama Theater of Mariupol, which up to 1,000 people had been using as a shelter in recent days, the adviser, Pyotr Andryushchenko, said in a text message.
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmila Denisova, said that the theater building had withstood the impact of a “high-powered aerial bomb” and later clarified that there was evidence the attack was carried out by a Russian fighter jet. The theater’s basement shielded people from the explosion, Ms. Denisova said in a statement on Facebook.