Ukrainian museum destroyed in airstrike

Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol have destroyed the Kuindzhi Art Museum.

Open since 2010, the museum was devoted to the life and work of local realist painter Arkhip Kuindzhi.

Writing on Facebook, Chairman of Ukraine’s artist union Konstantin Chernyavsky vowed the museum will one day be rebuilt.

The attack follows the bombing of a Mariupol theatre the week before, which is believed to have killed 300 people, making it the deadliest single attack since the war began.