Some of the hundreds of people who had been sheltering in a Mariupol theater that Ukraine said was hit by a powerful Russian air strike are alive and are being rescued from the rubble, according to Ukrainian officials. Sergei Orlov, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, told the BBC that “most” of what he estimated was between 1,000 and 1,200 people seeking refuge in the building had survived. Citing Ukrainian Parliament member Serhiy Taruta, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information said in a tweet Thursday that the bomb shelter underneath the Mariupol Drama Theatre had survived the shelling and “people are coming out alive as the rubble is being cleared.” The Mariupol City Council posted a photo of the destroyed building to social media on Wednesday, saying that Russian troops “purposefully and cynically destroyed the Drama Theater in the heart of Mariupol.” “The plane dropped a bomb on a building where hundreds …