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Mariupol theater strike exposed Russian brutality in Ukraine
Season 2026
Episode 28
It was one of the worst acts of civilian killing in Russia’s war on Ukraine. The bombing of a theater in Mariupol came to symbolize Ukrainian sacrifice, and revealed Putin’s true intentions. On an encore of Compass Points, Nick Schifrin discusses one of Russia’s most notorious war crimes with James Verini, author of “The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War."
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