The ‘defining atrocity’ of the Russia-Ukraine war
The Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater was the cultural center of Mariupol, the second-largest city in Ukraine’s southeast.
In the early days of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian soldiers besieged Mariupol, home to a large sea port, arts festivals and iron and steel plants. On March 16, 2022, a Russian airstrike on the Mariupol theater killed many civilians sheltering inside, including women, children and families.
“I believe it was the defining atrocity of the Ukraine war,” author James Verini told Compass Points host Nick Schifrin.
Verini added that the attack was when Ukraine and the world “first realized just what Putin and the Kremlin and the Russian military were willing to do to prosecute this war.”
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