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Authorities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol said on Thursday it was still not possible to estimate the number of possible casualties from what they said was an air strike on a theatre where hundreds of people were believed to have been sheltering.

It did not take next-generation satellite technology to see the large signs, in Russian, which spelled out ‘children’. But the Donetsk Regional Theatre of Drama in the besieged city of Mariupol, a makeshift shelter for more than 1,000 women and children – many of whose homes had already been flattened…

Leader of southeastern unit, major general Oleg Mityaev, said to have been killed in attempt on Mariupol

There were giant signs spelled out in Russian for any pilot to see: “children”. Yet a Mariupol theatre, in which more than 1,000 women and children were sheltering, was bombed anyway. Now it is mere rubble.

An image of a theatre in Mariupol that was later attacked shows the Russian word for ‘children’ written in large white letters on the ground outside.

Number of casualties unclear after strike on building where hundreds of people were hiding in basement

James Cleverly said it was a 'self-evident breach of international law'

The death toll from the attack is still unknown

Horrific scenes of bombed out buildings and street fighting have been played out in recent days in the southern city of Mariupol - while a convoy of Russian vehicles continues its approach to Kyiv