.Russia's Defense Department stated Wednesday that its own lethal strike on the core Ukrainian city of Poltava targeted a drone and also digital combat instruction center.At least 53 folks were actually killed and also 298 others were injured in Tuesday's assault on an army principle and nearby health center in the main city of Poltava. Ukrainian authorities did not point out the number of of the sufferers were actually armed forces or even noncombatant." Russia's armies executed a preciseness strike on the 179th shared instruction facility of the Ukrainian military in the urban area of Poltava," the Russian Protection Department mentioned in an everyday briefing.The department claimed that Ukrainian interactions and electronic war specialists, and also drone drivers associated with strikes on Russian area, were actually being actually trained at the facility "under the advice of international instructors.".Depending on to AFP, the Poltava army communications principle, founded in the 1960s when Ukraine was actually still a part of the U.S.S.R., concentrates on instruction telecom experts.The strike induced rage on Ukrainian social media after unofficial files said it had actually targeted an exterior army ceremony, along with lots of condemning careless actions from representatives that enabled the occasion to occur regardless of the risk of Russian assaults.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed he had actually gotten a "complete and also prompt examination into all the circumstances.".AFP added reporting.