Russia plans to complete "renovation" of Mariupol drama theater by end of 2025

This was reported by the Mariupol City Council.

"Russian builders continue to construct a new theater building to destroy traces of their war crimes," the post says.

The invaders claim that the volume of work completed has reached 65%. They plan to finally complete the work by the end of 2025.

Russia's strike on the drama theater in Mariupol

On March 16, 2022, the Russian army dropped a powerful bomb on the Mariupol Drama Theater, which 1,000 people used as an air raid shelter. It later became known that in Mariupol, the Russians were destroying evidence of the killing of civilians in a shelter under the Drama Theater.

On May 20, 2022, the advisor to the mayor of Mariupol reported that the Russians had completed the dismantling of the rubble of the Drama Theater in Mariupol, and now it is impossible to determine the number of dead.

On June 30, 2022, the international organization Amnesty International, which investigated the destruction of the Mariupol Drama Theater, concluded that Russian forces deliberately dropped a bomb on the theater, knowing that hundreds of civilians were hiding there.

As of July 24, 2022, the Russian Federation was preparing an "investigation" into the events in the Mariupol Drama Theater. And the Center for Countering Disinformation reported that the Russians were spreading fakes about an airstrike on the Drama Theater in Mariupol, but British human rights activists refuted them.

In August 2022, the Russian occupation authorities decided to demolish the rear and central parts of the drama theater, but the front part would be left "as the basis for reconstruction."

Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko, on the second anniversary of the destruction of the drama theater in Mariupol, March 16, released a video of the first minutes after a bomb destroyed the building.