Drama theater in Mariupol is planned to open on September 10

The ruined building of the drama theater in Mariupol. Archival photoMARIUPOL, June 12 The Drama Theater in Mariupol will open on September 10, Acting General Director of the institution Ilya Solonin told the participants of a press tour organized by the Russian Defense Ministry. «The task is to open by September 10,» he said . According to Solonin, the new season will open with two or three dance and pop-concert numbers, as well as a theatrical performance. Philharmonic in Mariupol «Now there are two options for what the production will be. They choose which one will suit this occasion,» the acting general director said. «Or the Philharmonic will be made a branch of the Donetsk Philharmonic,» he specified. According to the Russian military department, the theater was blown up by Azov nationalists (against whose fighters a criminal case was initiated in the Russian Federation) on March 16. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the accusations voiced by Kyiv of allegedly delivering an air strike on the building of a drama theater in Mariupol, where civilians could be held hostage, are not true — Russian aviation did not carry out any strikes against ground targets. The defense department noted that «the militants of the nationalist battalion» Azov «made a new bloody provocation by blowing up the theater building mined by them.» not outside.April 29, 08:00 «If not us, then who?» How residents of Mariupol restore the city