At left, residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, wait for food at the field kitchen outside the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre, March 9, 2022.. The theater was in use as the city’s main bomb shelter when a Russian airstrike destroyed much of the building on March 16. Survivors say at least 100 people were at the field kitchen at the time of the attack; none of them survived. At right, on March 17, one day after the attack, rubble covers the area where the field kitchen stood. Survivors say about 1,000 people were in the building at the time of the airstrike. AP’s reconstruction of the incident shows about 600 people died in the attack.on March 17, 2022, in Mariupol, Ukraine. 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) AP Photo / Alexei Alexandrov
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