According to Mayor Vadim Boychenko, at least 1,000 citizens were hiding in the Mariupol theatre when the bombing occurred on Wednesday and 130 civilians were rescued alive.
Digital Desk: The Kyiv Independent reported Thursday evening that 130 civilians were rescued from the debris and concrete that served as a theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, before a Russian attack destroyed it. According to officials, thousands of people, including children, have sought sanctuary in Ukraine to avoid Russian bombing. Efforts to save the rest are still underway. Russia has blamed a 'nationalist battalion' of Ukraine's military for the devastation.
According to Mayor Vadim Boychenko, at least 1,000 citizens were hiding in the Mariupol theatre when the bombing occurred on Wednesday and 130 civilians were rescued alive.
"People are coming out alive!" says the narrator. Serhiy Taruta, a Ukrainian legislator, posted on Facebook on Thursday after the rubble was cleared.
Ukraine and Russia have accused each other for the tragedy, with Ukraine claiming a planned Russian airstrike and Russia blaming the Ukrainian nationalist Azov unit.
Mariupol is in desperate straits, with Russian soldiers barricading the city on all sides, preventing food, water, and medication from reaching the local populace.
The chairman of the Donetsk administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, had stated that rubble had buried the entrance to certain portions of the theatre.
The phrase 'children' in Russian can be seen on the sidewalk in front and behind the Mariupol theatre in satellite photographs shot three days earlier.
The number of children caught in the conflict - a problem that the UN and other humanitarian organisations have highlighted - has risen after Ukraine said that 79 children have died and at least 100 have been injured so far.
Two hundred eighty educational institutions have also been targeted, according to Ukraine. According to the UN, approximately half of the three million refugees are children.
Across Ukraine, an overall nine humanitarian corridors were intended to be set up on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, but previous planned evacuation attempts have repeatedly failed.
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