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.