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herding cats

(19,568 posts)
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 04:34 PM Mar 2022

Video of the people sheltering inside Mariupol theater before Russia bombed it.

This is what the Mariupol theater looked like a few days ago. You can estimate the number of people who were sheltering there after losing their homes. Mostly women and children.






Russian bombing destroys Mariupol theatre used as civilian shelter
Scores of Ukrainians feared to have been inside

A theatre where civilians were sheltering in the besieged city of Mariupol has been destroyed by Russian bombing, the city council has said.

Scores of people are feared to have been hiding inside when the building was attacked today. The council said the number of casualties was unknown but Inna Sovsun, a Ukrainian MP, told CNN that thousands of people had been sheltering there in the past two weeks.

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Hundreds feared buried under rubble after Russian bomb destroys Mariupol theater
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216490133
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Video of the people sheltering inside Mariupol theater before Russia bombed it. (Original Post) herding cats Mar 2022 OP
Mother. Fuckers. The Unmitigated Gall Mar 2022 #1
I read that they had written in big letters on the front and back of the theater the Igel Mar 2022 #3
They had. herding cats Mar 2022 #4
🐱‍🏍💕🐱‍🏍 Cha Mar 2022 #2
They're doing like they did in Syria, Cha. herding cats Mar 2022 #5

Igel

(35,362 posts)
3. I read that they had written in big letters on the front and back of the theater the
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 04:57 PM
Mar 2022

word deti "children".

herding cats

(19,568 posts)
4. They had.
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 04:57 PM
Mar 2022


Satellite imagery from Monday showed the word 'children' written in large white letters in Russian in front of and behind the theatre building in an effort to stave off any attack by Putin's forces

herding cats

(19,568 posts)
5. They're doing like they did in Syria, Cha.
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 07:19 PM
Mar 2022

Deliberately attacking places they know women and children are sheltering to terrorize the population. Putin is pure evil!

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