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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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