Between 10 and 11 a.m. one Wednesday, March 16, 2022 a Russian warplane dropped thousand-pounds' bombs on Mariupol, besieged port city in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Before it was bombed, the Drama Theater was home to the largest sanctuary in Mariupol for residents fleeing the Russian siege. In the roughly three weeks that this improvised, citizen-led shelter existed, its inhabitants worked together to keep one another alive. As news of what was happening there spread across Ukraine, it became a national symbol of hope and resistance. When it was destroyed, it became the site of the single most lethal act...