‘300 killed’ in Russian air strike on theatre sheltering civilians

A refugee woman holds a baby while waiting on a bus( Vadim Ghirda/AP)

About 300 people died in a Russian air strike last week on a theatre being used as a bomb shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city’s government has said.

When the theatre was struck on March 16, an enormous inscription reading “Children” was posted outside in Russian, intended to be visible from the skies above.