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Thursday, March 17, 2022
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Thursday, March 17, 2022
Italy offers to rebuild Mariupol theater destroyed in Russian strike
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Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba posts a picture of Mariupol's Drama Theater after it was hit by what he says was Russian shelling, on March 16, 2022. (Dmytro Kuleba/Twitter)
ROME — Even as rescuers continue to search through the wreckage of a theater devastated by Russian airstrikes in Mariupol, Ukraine, Italy has offered to provide the means and the funds to rebuild it when that becomes possible.
Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini tweets that the government at a cabinet meeting approved his proposal to supply the assistance.
“The theaters of all countries belong to all of humanity,” the minister says.
Rescue efforts were being conducted to find survivors in the wreckage.
Hundreds of civilians in the besieged city had taken refuge in the theater basement and were trapped when the airstrikes collapsed the building onto their shelter.
It is still unknown if there were deaths or injuries.
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