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Kyiv (AFP) – Ukraine accused Russia Thursday of bombing a theatre that was sheltering more than 1,000 civilians in the city of Mariupol, after US President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”. The latest assaults on civilians across Ukraine came as President Volodymyr Zelensky made a searing appeal for help to the US, which responded by pledging $1 billion in new weapons to fight Russia’s invading army. Officials across Ukraine are struggling to count the civilian dead — with authorities saying 103 children have been killed since the invasion began — who have been targeted in h…