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Satellite imagery reveals word “children” painted outside Mariupol theater before bombing.

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According to satellite imagery taken on March 14 by the private U.S. company Maxar Technologies, “children” had been written in Russian outside the theater where hundreds of civilians had taken shelter. The theater was bombed by Russian forces on March 16.

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