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A Google Earth update reveals Russia’s brutal Mariupol bombing

The devastation caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine is now clearly visible in Google Earth’s new satellite images above Mariupol.

New pictures of the city show large areas of buildings reduced to rubble and entirely destroyed green spaces.

One of the first locations to be turned over to Vladimir Putin’s forces was Mariupol, which is still occupied.

After seeing some of the most horrific combat of the conflict over the past year, it has garnered attention across the globe.

The world was shocked when the city’s Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre was targeted while more than 1,300 Ukrainian civilians cowered inside.

It was bombed on March 16 last year, despite being daubed with huge signs warning children were inside.

The central part of the three-storey venue collapsed with rubble blocking the entrance, initially obstructing rescuers from entering.

The former mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, accused Moscow of hiding civilian bodies in mass graves.

He has since claimed that more than 20,000 residents were killed by Russian soldiers.

Mr Putin visited the port city in March this year, with television clips showing supposedly grateful Ukrainians greeting the leader.

A heckler’s voice was heard shouting: ‘It’s all lies, it’s all just for show’, which seemed to prompt the president’s security team to frantically look around.

Putin made the move shortly after the International Criminal Court in the Hague issued an arrest warrent for him for alleged war crimes.

Ukrainian forces reportedly tried to assassinate him but failed after the drone ‘crashed a few miles short of their target,’ it was claimed on Thursday.

Putin was due to visit a newly built industrial estate near Moscow at the weekend, where the drone was supposed to explode and kill him, it was said.

But before it reached the Rudnevo industrial park it crashed around 12 miles away, according to German website Bild.

It cited a tweet by Ukrainian activist Yuriy Romanenko, who claims to have close ties to Kyiv’s intelligence services.

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