Mariupol School Sheltering 400 People Bombed: Ukraine

Kyiv, March 20: Russian forces on Sunday bombed school sheltering 400 people in Ukraine’s Mariupol city, according to city head.

In a statement posted on the Telegram channels of Mariupol council and the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, the council aid women, children and elderly people were inside and “are still under the rubble” of the destroyed G12 art school in the cities Left Bank district, The Guardian reported.

The council, however, did not confirm the casualties. Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address that the Russian attacks on the besieged city of Mariupol is as “act of terror” and will be “remembered for centuries”. Mariupol will go down in history as an example of war crimes, he added.