Mariupol: Inside Russia’s Massive War Crime - with James Verini

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May 21, 202600:49:36News & Politics

On March 16, 2022, the Russian army committed one of the gravest war crimes of its invasion of Ukraine. It dropped air bombs on the Mariupol Drama Theatre, knowing that around a thousand civilians were sheltering inside,...

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