Olha Katsan is a multimedia producer with RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
The attack on the Mariupol Drama Theater was one of the most notorious Russian atrocities in its near four-year full-scale invasion of Ukraine, reportedly killing hundreds of civilians -- including children -- who were sheltering in the basement and destroying one of the city’s cultural icons.
Russian media reports about plans to set a Chinese school in Ukraine's Russia-occupied Luhansk are viewed by experts as yet another piece of Kremlin propaganda, strategically designed to project an image of normalization and international engagement in occupied Ukrainian territories.
