The bombing of the Mariupol Theater was “clearly a Russian war crime” but the victims were less than expected.

The March 16 bombing of the Mariupol Theater in Ukraine, in which a large number of civilians took refuge, was confirmed by Amnesty International’s report on Thursday as “clearly a Russian war crime.” Feared.

“So far we have been talking about a war crime. We can now clearly say that it was done by the Russian Armed Forces, ”Oksana Bogaltzouk, director of the AI ​​in Ukraine, told the AFP in an interview in Paris.

Two explosions devastated much of the theater, causing “something huge: two 500-kilogram bombs” to strike in an “air strike,” he continued, paralyzing the nature of the damage on the advice of Moscow-based NGO experts. An explosion inside the site provoked by Ukrainian forces.

But at the time, Mariupol explained that the sky was “under Russian control” and that “there were no Ukrainian planes.”

He said satellite images taken before and after the attack showed that “there was no Ukrainian army around the theater.” “When there were so many military targets, (the Russians) chose one civilian,” he lamented.

Amnesty International has condemned a “deliberate” attack on a site that welcomes hundreds of innocent people, with the word “child” written in large white letters on the front, making it “clearly a war crime”.

When Mariupol said 300 people had died in the municipality, the only good news from that report was that the death toll would be much lower than estimated.

Can we read in this report from the testimonies of 50 witnesses and many experts that “at least a dozen people were killed and many more were killed and many more were seriously injured in the Amnesty International attack”?

The NGO agrees that “this estimate is lower than the previous figure.” He explains that “two days before the attack” was based on the fact that many refugees were able to flee Mariupol from the theater, and that “most of those who stayed there were in basements and other areas protected from the explosion.”

“It simply came to our notice then. But it does not change anything. ” Further emphasis: The attack on the Mariupol Theater was “clearly a war crime” regardless of the number of victims.