Images filmed from inside the building show people covered in dust, clearly in shock, but alive. Only now have the mobile phone pictures made it to the outside world.
A warning that children were sheltering inside the theatre was visible from space. Pic: Maxar TechnologiesFor the first time, Sky News has also been told pregnant women who'd been rescued from aWe spoke to Diana Berg who lived next to the theatre but escaped the city before it was bombed.
Hospital number three in Mariupol was a children's hospital and maternity ward. Journalists were still in the city when it was hit by a Russian airstrike on 9 March. Ms Berg says there are now so many bodies in Mariupol, they're not all being buried and body parts hang from trees. Those who are still living this nightmare have little way of being heard.But British photographer Max Clarke has recently left with new images of the reality people are living.
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