The drama theater in Mariupol, on which the Russian occupation troops dropped a bomb on March 16 and under the rubble of which hundreds of people died, is planned to open on September 10, said the so-called acting general director of the theater, collaborator Ilya Solonin.

“The task is to open by September 10,” he said at a press conference organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

According to the collaborator, even the repertoire was thought out. In particular, in the ruined city they want to put on a “theatrical production, two or three dance and pop-concert numbers”.

To do this, the occupation authorities are considering the option of uniting the troupes of the Mariupol Drama Theater and the City Philharmonic.

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The air strike on the Mariupol Drama Theater took place on March 16 at about 10 am right on the stage and the field kitchen. About 600 residents of the city were killed under its rubble, including many theatka workers who hid in the building..

In mid-April, it became known that Russian troops began clearing the rubble of the Drama Theater in Mariupol in order to hide traces of war crimes.. In particular, the bodies of the dead were taken for burial in a trench in the village of Mangush near Mariupol..