Over 1,000 people have been hit by an airstrike in Mariupol, the mayor of the city has claimed.
The strike hit a theatre in the south-eastern city, which has been decimated in the past fortnight.
Earlier this month, a maternity hospital in the city was hit by a Russian bomb.
The city council said that Russian forces had "purposefully and cynically destroyed the Drama Theater in the heart of Mariupol. The plane dropped a bomb on a building where hundreds of peaceful Mariupol residents were hiding."
The council added on its Telegram channel: "It is still impossible to estimate the scale of this horrific and inhumane act, because the city continues to shell residential areas. It is known that after the bombing, the central part of the Drama Theater was destroyed, and the entrance to the bomb shelter in the building was destroyed."
The deputy-mayor of Mariupol, Serhiy Orlov, told the BBC that between 1,000 and 1,200 people were there.
"It is impossible to find words that could describe the level of cruelty and cynicism with which the Russian occupiers are destroying the civilian population of the Ukrainian city by the sea. Women, children, and the elderly remain in the enemy's sights. These are completely unarmed peaceful people," the Telegram message finished, according to CNN.
