An official has confirmed that an estimated 300 people died in the attack.

Petr Andryuschenko, advisor to deputy mayor of Mariupol, in an interview with Newshour on the BBC World Service, said nearly 600 people were inside the theatre before the attack. Three hundred were in a shelter under the theatre.

The authorities had not been able to start the rescue operation because there was street fighting near the theatre, and the Russians were continuing to shell the area.

Andryuschenko is confident about the figures because they had a record of who was in the theatre before the missile strike, they've spoken to survivors, and they have checked how many survived.

He also confirmed that there is fighting in the middle of the city, but insisted that the Russians had not yet manage to take control.

Source: https://www.obeyafriday.com/2022/03/25/mariupol-official-confirms-some-300-died-in-theatre-bombing/
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God heal the world.

Let them stop all these mindless killings already

na waaooo. Mr Putin should just stop this war and enter dialogue with Ukraine to address whatever misgivings he had with sovereign Ukraine.
meanwhile the Ukraine president have confirmed that Ukraine Will not join NATO alliance any more, so why all these fights and needless deaths ?

I know, they will shout Civilians