Russians committed a war crime when they deliberately struck the Mariupol drama theatre in March 2022
“In a new report, ‘Children: The Attack on the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine,’ the Amnesty International documented how the Russian military likely deliberately targeted the theatre despite knowing hundreds of civilians were sheltering there on March 16, 2022, making the attack a clear war crime,” the organization reported based on the results of interviewing witnesses, studying numerous photos, as well as scientific calculations.
Amnesty International’s Crisis Response team interviewed numerous survivors and collected extensive digital evidence, concluding that the attack was almost certainly carried out by Russian fighter aircraft, which dropped two 500kg bombs that struck close to each other and detonated simultaneously.
