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AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike

Actors work on a performance dedicated to the tragedy of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, at the Lviv Regional Academic Puppet Theater during a rehearsal in Lviv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 4, 2022. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater in Mariupol stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Yulia Marukhnenko, who was renting an apartment nearby the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, poses for a photo in the Dnipro Academic Drama & Comedy Theatre in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Following the March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater in Mariupol, Marukhnenko, trained in first aid, with a full kit on hand, was facing problems no first aid could begin to help: limbs, bodies with no limbs, bones sticking out. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Maria Radionova, survivor of the March 16, 2022, bombing of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on March 22, 2022. Radionova was standing on the steps at the entrance to the theater when the bomb hit. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) Residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, wait for food at the field kitchen outside of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre on March 9, 2022, in Mariupol. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war. (Lev Sandalov via AP) Galina Kutnyakova, teacher and survivor of the bombing at the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, poses for a photo at the Lviv Regional Academic Puppet Theater in Lviv, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022. The March 16, 2022, bombing stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Maria Kutnyakova, an IT specialist, who was nearby the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 16, 2022, when it was bombed, poses for a photo at the Lviv Regional Academic Puppet Theater in Lviv, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022. Her mother and sister were inside. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Pictures hang on the wall of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sept. 10, 2018. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater that was used as a shelter stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the war in Ukraine. (Lev Sandalov via AP) Residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, shelter in the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre on March 7, 2022, in Mariupol. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the war in Ukraine. (Lev Sandalov via AP) Victoria Dubovytska, survivor of the March 16, 2022, bombing of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, embraces her 6-year-old son Artem, at a shelter in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. When the bomb exploded, Dubovytska was in the projection room with her two children. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) Victoria Dubovytska, survivor of the March 16, 2022, bombing of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, poses for a photo at a shelter in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. When the bomb exploded, Dubovytska was in the projection room with her two children. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) Residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, shelter in the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre on March 7, 2022, in Mariupol. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the war in Ukraine. (Lev Sandalov via AP) The Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, stands as the sun rises on June 27, 2019. Amid all the horrors that have unfolded in the war in Ukraine, the Russian airstrike on the theater, used as a bomb shelter, on March 16, ​2022, stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date. (Lev Sandalov via AP) FILE - Part of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, is charred following a bombing on March 16, 2022, when the theater was used as a shelter, in an area now controlled by Russian forces Monday, April 4, 2022. The bombing of the theater stands out as the war's single deadliest known attack against civilians to date. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)
AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike