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Ukraine war: Russian ambassador to UN denies Putin's forces bombed Mariupol theatre as he hits out at 'so many fakes' - Sky News

The Kremlin's ambassador to the United Nations has told Sky News that a theatre, reportedly full of hundreds of civilians, which was ripped apart in the besieged city of Mariupol was not bombed by Russia.

But the denial has been dismissed by UK defence minister James Heappey, who questioned how the envoy "sleeps at night".

Some survivors have apparently been pulled from the rubble by rescue teams following Wednesday's airstrike which Ukrainian officials said was carried out by President Vladimir Putin's forces.

Up to 1,000 men, women and children were thought to have been sheltering in the theatre's basement for safety after their homes were destroyed during the invasion.

And the word "children" had reportedly been displayed in large letters at the site, prior to the attack, warning warplanes about those inside.

But the Russian ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, denied his country played any part in the incident and said there was "an information war taking place on a larger scale than the battlefield".

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He told Sky's US correspondent Martha Kelner: "The theatre in Mariupol was not bombed by Russia."

Mr Nebenzya added: "I have seen so many fakes. We have this information war which is raging on a much greater scale than on the battlefield, and I will not be surprised at anything because who wins the information war - the one who wins the war."

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But Mr Heappey told Sky News: "I don't know how the Russian ambassador sleeps at night.

"It is clear as day what's happening in Mariupol, the Russians are indiscriminately using artillery and missile strikes to destroy a city that they were unable to take militarily.

"The resistance that remains in there is courageous.

"Mariupol is probably the worst, it's the one that we're most concerned about, but actually there's not dissimilar things happening in Kharkiv as well and other places.

"This is a barbaric tactic."

Meanwhile in a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven leading economies have accused President Putin of conducting an "unprovoked and shameful war".

And they called on Russia to comply with the International Court of Justice's order to stop its attack and withdraw its forces.

Speaking at the UN Security Council, Mr Nebenzya claimed people who had left Mariupol said on 13 March that the Azov Battalion, a far-right Ukrainian militia, had been holding a "huge number of people" in the building and was "preparing a bloody provocation".

Theatre 'never a target', says ambassador

In his speech in New York, he acknowledged the "children" word outside the theatre, said Russian armed forces were "informed of the situation" and the building "was never considered as a target for a strike".

The shelter is believed to have stood firm in the bombing, and rescuers have been clearing rubble blocking the entrance to the basement.

Mariupol has suffered the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the three-week war, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in basements with no food, water or power.

Mr Nebenzya said the southeastern city had previously had an "infamous jail and torture centre" at the airport which he compared to "neo-Nazism".

And he claimed "Ukrainian radicals" were "clinging to the city" and "covering up maybe proof of their crimes… and they understand they will have to be held accountable".

"That's why they stand ready to drag into the grave almost the entire population of Mariupol," he said.

Mr Nebenzya alleged the authorities in Mariupol "use people as human shields, they do not allow them to evacuate and they place right next to residential buildings heavy weaponry in violation of humanitarian law".

Russia accused of 'complete disinformation'

But the UK's ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, has said the Security Council meetings play an important role in exposing Russian disinformation.

"What we're trying to do is isolate Russia and keep pressure on Russia to end the war," she told Sky News. "We saw that with the attack on the theatre - Russia say they're attacking military targets, they're actually attacking children who are sheltering.

"This war is characterised by Russian disinformation. They said they weren't going to invade, they said they weren't going to target civilian targets. For the Russians this is a war of complete disinformation, it's hard to distinguish the truth."

There has been an escalation in rhetoric from the US about President Putin in recent days.

US President Joe Biden called Mr Putin a war criminal and a "murderous dictator," while the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that he personally also believes that Mr Putin is a war criminal.

"We're certainly agreeing there are war crimes being committed in Ukraine," Ambassador Woodward said. "They have to be investigated by the relevant international legal authorities.

"But really the main thing we have to do now is stop the war, get Russian boots off the ground and return Ukraine to peace."

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The Kremlin has insisted Russia does not target civilians in what President Putin calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine.

Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry, said Kyiv was trying to frame Russia for the Mariupol incident.

"The Kyiv regime immediately tried to blame the Russian military, who, in its view, allegedly dropped a bomb from the air on the theatre," she said.

"Of course, this is a lie. It is well known to everyone that the Russian armed forces do not bomb cities. No matter how many videos are doctored by NATO structures and how many video clips and photo fakes are pumped out, the truth will come out."

In the northern city of Chernihiv, at least 53 people had been taken to morgues over the last 24 hours, after being killed amid heavy Russian air attacks and ground fire, local governor Viacheslav Chaus told Ukrainian TV.

Ukraine's emergency services said a mother, a father and three of their children, including three-year-old twins, were killed when a Chernihiv hostel was shelled.

And at least 21 people were killed when Russian artillery destroyed a school and a community centre in Merefa, near the northeast city of Kharkiv, according to mayor Veniamin Sitov.

In the capital city Kyiv, where residents have been huddling in homes and shelters, a fire broke out in an apartment building hit by remnants of a downed Russian rocket, killing one person, according to authorities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for more help for his country in his latest video address to German legislators, saying thousands of people have been killed, including 108 children.

He also referred to the dire situation in Mariupol, saying: "Everything is a target for them."

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Kamis, 17 Maret 2022

Shells rain down on Kharkiv as Ukraine's army stands firm - BBC

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Ukraine's second city Kharkiv has been the constant target of Russian attacks for three weeks. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway report from the front line where Ukrainian troops continue to repel the enemy advance.

We enter the house where the back door used to be. Now there is just a blanket flapping in the freezing wind. The owners, long gone, would have had a view across the rich farmland north of Kharkiv, but much of that is unrecognisable, too.

In the garage, beside an abandoned skateboard, are a dozen or so empty packing cases for some of the world's best anti-tank weapons. A dead Russian soldier lies face down in the front garden.

The house has become a frontline base, and the spent cases are an indication that the soldiers here have had the fight of their lives - a fight for Ukraine's independence.

We have gained rare access to the Ukrainian army, who after three weeks of hard fighting, are still holding firm on the outskirts of Kharkiv, preventing Russian forces from capturing Ukraine's second-largest city.

"Do you want to go further ahead?" asks Yuri, a commander with the Ukrainian army's 22 Motorized Infantry Battalion, pointing at the ruins of two Russian armoured personnel carriers, and the shattered pieces of two of their tanks. The battalion was reconstituted in 2014 after Russia invaded Crimea and backed Donbas separatists.

"They've used drones, aircraft, attack helicopters, everything," says Yuri, as Russian shells thunder overhead, striking nearby roads and apartment blocks.

Residential neighbourhood where grad rockets

The Russians have continued to attack again and been repelled many times. In their frustration at being denied entry, they bomb the city, which was once home to 1.4 million people, day and night.

The ground is churned up and thick mud sucks on your boots. A backward glance shows the ruined shells of the line of houses we just passed through. Suburban gardens have become battlefields from Europe's past.

"The first three days were the worst. It was raining, we were covered in mud, we looked like pigs," says Olexander, 44, who is standing nearby.

By one of the destroyed armoured personnel carriers, its Z marking already faded, is a large crater, 20ft (6m) across. On the first day of the invasion, 24 February, a Russian strike killed six Ukrainian soldiers at this exact place. Many more died here since, but official figures aren't being released.

A green army boot is perched on the crater's edge, a Russian corpse beyond that. A large black crow sits nearby, untroubled by the roar of shelling and Grad rockets from Russian positions.

The men here can tell you the precise date and time they came to the front - the implication being that if you weren't here the first three days, you don't know real fighting. "Jump in the crater if there is more shelling," says Uri.

Constantine, 58, was a pilot in the Ukrainian air force until he retired and became a journalist. Now he's back at the front, walking with a limp and using a broken broom handle for support. Russian shrapnel wounded his leg, but he refuses to leave the front.

"This is the last line of defence for the city, if they get through here, they will enter Kharkiv. This road takes you from Russia to the very heart of the city," he says.

There is a boom and whoosh, and a wire-guided missile flies just over our heads. We scramble into the crater. It strikes along the roadside, a gas pipeline bursts into flames.

While we shelter, a tall reconnaissance soldier with blue tape across his helmet tells us to stay down. Roman is 34 years old, though he jokes that he was 24 when the war started three weeks ago.

He says the Russians won't show themselves now. "They are chickens. We will respond good and proper." He stops and asks for a selfie. Later we learn that he transported the dead bodies of his fallen comrades in his own vehicle - which was just a month old - from the front to the city morgue.

As we leave, Constantine catches something in the air - thin copper wire, which stretches for miles. It was used to guide the Russian missile which just flew over our heads.

Waiting for us is Olexander, 44, from nearby Poltava region. He's been with the unit since its founding and has fought in Donbas. "This is much worse," he says, adding: "For the first three days, we couldn't understand what was going on. We were lost and we couldn't believe it was happening. But after that we got better and we are standing our ground and will hold our positions."

I ask him why he is fighting. He gives a laugh and responds, "For a free Ukraine, for my family, and for you guys as well. For our independence and for peace."

Yuri, the commander, drives us back to the collection of Soviet-era apartment blocks, still inhabited. Russia says it came to Ukraine to demilitarise the country, but here we see what that means for civilians. A 20-storey block is still smoking from a Russian strike - it was two days ago, according to Yuri.

The official number of civilian deaths in Kharkiv stood at 234, including 14 children, on 16 March. The past few days have been punishing - as we were reminded in an instant.

A volley of Russian Grad rockets rained down on the neighbourhood, striking just metres away. The soldiers around us had taken cover and were unharmed.

In the same housing complex lives husband and wife Svitlana and Sasha. Svitlana is 72, and welcomes us into her home, saying they haven't spoken to anyone in weeks. "We're glad you came," she says.

Their building has already been hit, the back windows are gone, and they sleep in a central room on sofas. They manage two hours of sleep a night, the shelling is relentless. "When it stops, it is like a thaw in spring," she says.

I ask if she has a message for Vladimir Putin. "No," she replies, firmly. "No, it seems to me that this man has already lost his sanity and he does not think clearly. Because a sane human can not do something like this - bomb old people, kids, kindergartens, schools, hospitals. He wouldn't understand what I say."

But then, when I ask about the men not far from her home who are defending the city, she cries. She says, "Yes, I'm very grateful to them for protecting their homeland. Hold on guys. We will always support you. They are so brave, both boys and girls."

There are still hundreds of thousands of people living in Kharkiv, despite the shelling. If Russia and Ukraine are brothers, as the Kremlin professes, then this is fratricide.

As we leave the neighbourhood, much of it is alight. Russia's fury with this city is both seen and heard. By evening, all of Kharkiv is covered in a cloud of smoke, the relentless pounding of guns continues, but the defenders of Kharkiv still keep the enemy from the city gates.

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Ukraine war: 'People are coming out alive' - Survivors reported after airstrike on Mariupol theatre sheltering a thousand civilians - Sky News

Rescue workers have been digging survivors out of the rubble of a theatre which was reportedly bombed in a Russian airstrike in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to officials.

Prior to Wednesday's attack, up to 1,000 men, women and children were thought to have taken shelter in the Drama Theatre's basement seeking safety from the onslaught by President Vladimir Putin's forces.

Earlier this week, a satellite image of the building showed the Russian word for "children" written in giant letters at both ends of the building, in an apparent bid to protect it from the shelling.

The shelter is believed to have stood firm and rescuers have been clearing rubble blocking the entrance to the basement, despite new strikes reported elsewhere in the city.

Mariupol has suffered the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the three-week war, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in basements with no food, water or power.

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Ukraine's ombudswoman Ludmyla Denisova said on the Telegram messaging app: "The (theatre) building withstood the impact of a high-powered air bomb and protected the lives of people hiding in the bomb shelter."

She and Ukrainian parliament member Sergiy Taruta said some survivors had emerged.

"People are coming out alive," Mr Taruta wrote on Facebook, though he did not say how many. And it was unclear if there were injuries or deaths among those inside.

A city mayoral adviser, Petro Andrushchenko, said "now the rubble is being cleared", adding: "There are survivors."

Russia's defence ministry denied targeting the building, according to Russian news agency RIA, instead accusing a far-right Ukrainian militia of blowing it up - but provided no evidence for this claim. The ministry also denied bombing anywhere else in Mariupol on Wednesday.

In other developments:

• Zelenskyy: Germany put its economy before Ukraine security in run-up to invasion
• Putin urges 'self-purification' to rid Russia of anyone who questions invasion
• Russia attacks Biden for calling Putin a 'war criminal'
• Fourth Russian general killed in fighting, Ukraine says
• UN Security Council holding meeting on Ukraine

Mariupol's mayor Vadym Boychenko said more than a thousand people had been sheltering in the theatre, adding: "We will never forgive this."

'Children and pregnant women buried under rubble'

Russian airstrikes also hit a municipal swimming pool complex in the city where civilians, including women and children, had been sheltering, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional administration, said on Telegram.

"Now there are pregnant women and women with children under the rubble there," he said.

Russian invasion 'largely stalled'

The latest Ministry of Defence update indicates Russian forces have made "minimal progress" on land, sea and air in recent days.

They "continue to suffer heavy losses" and the invasion has "largely stalled on all fronts", the MoD said.

More than 7,000 Russian soldiers have died since the invasion began on 24 February, estimates from American intelligence agencies show.

Estimates suggest more than 150,000 Russian troops have now entered Ukraine since 24 February, with around 14,000 to 21,000 injured.

Meanwhile, the MoD described the Ukrainian defence as "staunch and well-coordinated", and said the vast majority of territory remains in Ukrainian hands.

This follows reports that Russia is struggling with resources and morale.

It comes, however, as a Russian airstrike just before dawn on Thursday killed 21 people and destroyed a school and community centre in Merefa, near the northeast city of Kharkiv, according to officials.

And the governor of the northern city of Chernihiv said it has experienced "colossal losses and destruction" from Russian artillery and airstrikes.

Viacheslav Chaus told Ukrainian TV the bodies of 53 people had been taken to city morgues in the last 24 hours.

Also, another morning attack on the capital, Kyiv, just after 5am on Thursday, killed at least one person and wounded three.

Emergency services said the 16-storey building was hit by remains of a downed missile.

Biden labels Putin 'war criminal'

Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians, but such cases appear to have fuelled President Joe Biden's incendiary assertion that President Vladimir Putin is a "war criminal".

Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's spokesman, called it "unacceptable and unforgivable rhetoric by the leader of a country from whose bombs hundreds of thousands of people have died".

Another $800m of military aid to Ukraine has been approved after President Zelenskyy addressed the US Congress and invoked the 9/11 and Pearl Harbor attacks.

America's additional pledge includes 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems; 2,000 surface-to-air Javelin missiles; 6,000 portable anti-tank weapons and 100 so-called Switchblade "kamikaze" drones.

Despite peace talks appearing to make progress - with hints that Ukraine may agree to stay neutral and out of NATO - the situation on the ground remains grim.

Relentless strikes pounded the second-biggest city of Kharkiv, in the northeast. However, officials said they were still managing to hold off Russian moves into the heart of the city.

Another apparent success was in occupied Kherson, on the Black Sea, where new satellite images of the airport appeared to show Russian helicopters and vehicles on fire after a strike on Tuesday.

Ukraine's General Staff said the Russians were trying to remove any surviving military equipment, and that further afield its ground offensive on major cities had mostly stalled.

Kidnapped mayor freed

In Melitopol, the mayor Ivan Fedorov, who was kidnapped five days ago, has now been freed, President Zelenskyy said.

The Interfax Ukraine news agency - quoting the president's press aide - said he was swapped for nine captured Russian soldiers.

The three-week war has now killed 726 civilians, the UK's Ministry of Defence said in its latest update on Wednesday night, citing UN figures.

However, it said the true casualty figure "is likely to be significantly greater".

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2022-03-17 16:18:45Z
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Russia attacks theatre sheltering civilians, Ukraine says - BBC

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Ukraine has accused Russian forces of bombing a theatre where civilians were sheltering in the besieged southern city of Mariupol.

Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov told the BBC that between 1,000 and 1,200 people had sought refuge in the building.

While the number of casualties is unclear, a local MP said the basement where people were gathered had withstood the bombing.

"It looks like most of them have survived," Dmytro Gurin told the BBC.

But Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the city's mayor, earlier said emergency workers were struggling to reach the building due to constant shelling.

Images of the theatre, verified by the BBC, showed extensive damage and smoke rising from the site.

Russia's air strikes and shells have previously hit a maternity hospital, a church and apartment buildings.

Mariupol's city council said in a statement that Russian forces "deliberately and cynically destroyed" the theatre, saying a "plane dropped a bomb on a building where hundreds of peaceful Mariupol residents were hiding".

Both Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, and the city council accused Russia of a "war crime" in the wake of the attack.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the bombing and said Russia had deliberately targeted the theatre.

"Our hearts are broken by what Russia is doing to our people. To our Mariupol," he said in a video address late on Wednesday evening.

A satellite image from Maxar Technologies taken on 14 March shows an aerial view of the Mariupol Drama Theatre which was bombed on 16 March. The word "children" (in Russian) can be seen written in large white letters visible from above outside the building

Satellite pictures taken on 14 March - released by the US company Maxar - showed the Russian word for "children" had been marked on the ground in large letters to warn Russian jets away from the building.

The BBC was earlier told that many children and elderly people were sheltering inside, and that conditions were quickly deteriorating.

Local authorities say at least 2,400 people have been killed in Mariupol since the start of the war, although they acknowledge this is likely to be an underestimate. Many of the dead are being buried in mass graves.

An estimated 300,000 residents are trapped inside the city, where running water, electricity and gas have been cut off. Food and water supplies are running low, as Russian troops have not allowed the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Hours after news of the destruction emerged, the Russian defence ministry denied it had carried out an air strike against the theatre, the RIA news agency reported.

About 1,500 cars had managed to flee Mariupol on Wednesday, according to Mr Orlov, the deputy mayor. But, he said, an attack by Russia on the convoy left at least five wounded, including a child.

Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, called for better access to civilians caught up in the war, which he said was causing "enormous suffering". Mr Maurer, who arrived in Ukraine for a five-day visit, described the situation in Mariupol as a "waking nightmare".

Elsewhere, at least 10 people waiting in a queue for bread in the northern city of Chernihiv were killed by Russian shelling on Wednesday, the country's prosecutor general said. Unverified footage released by a local outlet showed bodies on a street.

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2022-03-17 09:23:38Z
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Ukraine war: Russian ambassador to UN denies Putin's forces bombed Mariupol theatre as he hits out at 'so many fakes' - Sky News

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