Talk:Mariupol theater bombing

A Daily Mail report used footage from an earlier time for its coverage of the blast aftermath. The footage does not tally with later photos of the bombed out building. The footage was debunked soon after.

The AP tally of an estimated 600 fatalities is based on accounts of witnesses - some apparently now based in Lvov - extrapolating from their accounts of the density of the building's occupation and its floor plans, to give a figure of around 1000 said to be in the building at the time of the strike. And saying that no witnesses saw more than around 200 leave the building. It's not explained why the number is then not 800 rather than 600. It's also questionable whether there would have been such a full level of occupation at the day and time of the explosion. By now it should have been quite feasible to collate a list of those thought to have been sheltering there, that are missing, presumed dead from the social media activity of relatives, neighbours and so on. If there were such a number dead, then there should be more corroborating evidence accessible to AP beyond back of an envelop type calculations. --Diagonal (talk) 14:29, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Art School

 * Russia bombs Mariupol art school where 400 people in besieged city were sheltering, Ukrainian officials say - Loveday Morris, Annabelle Timsit and Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, March 20, 2022
 * Officials in the besieged port city of Mariupol accused Russia of bombing an art school that was sheltering 400 residents, destroying the building and leaving civilians “still under the rubble” as they scrambled to assess casualties. The Washington Post could not immediately verify the claim independently from the city council, made in a post on Telegram. Women, children and elderly people, it said, had taken refuge inside Art School No. 12 in the Left Bank district of eastern Mariupol.

More on Azov

 * Neo-Nazis killed parents of small children and tried to leave Mariupol with them - Alexander BOYKO, KP.ru, March 21, 2022

Investigation

 * Swodki on Telegram, May 21, 2022
 * ''The result of the analysis of the rubble of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.
 * ''Rescuers began clearing the rubble when fighting continued in the Primorsky District several blocks away.
 * ''There are no official statements about the explosion in the drama theater yet. But the rescuers said that from experience - all the signs of an explosion from the inside, according to the characteristic collapses of the roof and other destruction. The guys also said that the remains of two bodies were found under the rubble (they talked to more than one rescuer) and a relative, most likely of the dead, was also found, approached the guys during their work ...
 * ''There is still hope that before the explosion, Azov was still given the opportunity to leave the theater for people, and then they just blew it up, trying to blame Russia for the mass death of people ... the investigation will figure it out, now those involved, I think, are already being interrogated.

Dmitry Kozatsky interviewed by RT
From Telegram: (video)
 * ''VGTRK reporter Andrey Rudenko @RtrDonetsk
 * ''Nazi Orest from Azov acted as commander of the regiment's press service, as he himself said.
 * ''It was on them that the information temnik descended from the Zelensky administration. Promotion of Nazism, work with young people in this direction, and already during the special operation - and carrying out information sabotage. It was his wards who traveled around Mariupol with cameras and filmed the shelling and killing of civilians by their “brothers”, passing them off as allegedly our crimes.
 * ''Orestes, even surrounded, did not stop his work. His photo, where he took pictures of himself and Nazis like him, took first place at international photo exhibitions. He also wrote a farewell letter stating that they would stand to the end and not surrender alive. By a strange coincidence, the text of this nonsense appeared on the pages of the Western media. Support from foreign publications was limitless.
 * ''And here such bad luck for those who nurtured the Nazis. Orestes, and in the world Dmitry Kozatsky, did not want to die, but surrendered, moreover, he spoke. And he sings like a nightingale, handing over all appearances and passwords. The stories he tells are shocking to sane people. Torture and killings in Ukraine are controlled by the highest echelons of power.
 * ''Dmitry Kozatsky told who and how, and most importantly, from wheretasks for the brutal murders of Russian soldiers and officers of prisoners of war . They were assigned the task of collecting and distributing this information from the apparatus of President Zelensky, and Arestovich got in touch. The task of carrying out these crimes was received by the Nazis from Kharkov and Kyiv. One of the main perpetrators, he calls the Nazi Botsman, who escaped from Russia, the defendant in many criminal cases in our country, affectionately warmed by the criminal authorities of Kyiv.
 * ''All these testimonies are toxic for the Ukrainian authorities, they reveal the true face of the Kyiv regime. And undoubtedly, they will lay down as evidence of crimes to the future tribunal, which will definitely take place. @rt_special
 * https://t.me/swodki/140091
 * Video with English subtitles: https://t.me/war_subtitled_en/374

Dmitry Kozatsky is not included in the Russian MoD list of 50 POWs killed or 73 wounded in the Ukrainian HIMARS strike on the Elenovka detention center.
 * July 30