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City officials in the besieged city of Mariupol said Wednesday that Russian bombing had hit a theater that was being used to shelter civilians.
“Occupiers from Russia purposefully destroyed the theater where hundreds of people were hiding,” the Mariupol City Council posted on Telegram.
The officials said they did not know the extent of the casualties, but said hundreds of civilians had been taking refuge in the building.
“A plane dropped a bomb on a building where hundreds of peaceful Mariupol residents were hiding,” they wrote. “It is still impossible to estimate the scale of this horrific and inhumane act.”
The council said that the entrance to the building’s bomb shelter had been destroyed in the strike.
“Women, children and the elderly remain in the enemy’s sights,” they wrote. “These are completely unarmed, peaceful people.”
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Mariupol, a southern port city on the Sea of Azov, has been under siege and bombardment from Russian forces for more than two weeks, cut off from power and resupply of food and water.
Russian airstrikes hit a hospital maternity ward last week, and Ukrainian officials claimed Russian forces were holding patients hostage at another area hospital this week.
With Post wires
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