Two ballistic missiles hit an “educational institution” and a nearby hospital in the city of Poltava, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.
Two ballistic missiles hit an “educational institution” and a nearby hospital in the city of Poltava, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.
Two ballistic missiles hit an “educational institution” and a nearby hospital in the city of Poltava, 190 miles southeast of the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy said in a video post on the Telegram messaging app. He added that one of the buildings of the Poltava Military Institute of Communication was partially destroyed.NBC News was able to geolocate a video showing bomb damage to the 179th Training Center of Signal Forces for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Poltava.
NBC News could not verify the death toll. Russia has not commented on the incident, but some of the country's influential military bloggers had reported a deadly strike on a military site hours before the Ukrainian announcement.It appears to be one of the deadliest strikes on Ukraine since the beginning of the war some two-and-a-half years ago.
“Poltava is experiencing a terrible day today,” Ukraine's ministry of defense said in a statement Tuesday, adding that “one of the city’s educational institutions” was hit. “The time interval between the alarm and the arrival of the deadly missiles was so short that it caught people at the moment of evacuation to the bomb shelter,” the ministry added.“I have ordered a full and prompt investigation into all the circumstances of what happened,” Zelenskyy said. “All necessary services are involved in the rescue operation.
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