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Bullet points of Russia provides details of strike on Ukrainian military training center
- Russian forces carried out a high-precision strike on a Ukrainian training center in Poltava, killing nearly 50 people and injuring nearly 300.
- The facility was being used to train foreign instructors in electronic warfare, communication, and drone operation for Ukraine's military.
- The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the strike, stating that the center was being used to train specialists in communications and electronic warfare, as well as operators of unmanned aerial vehicles.
- The attack was initially reported by Ukrainian officials, who stated that two Russian Iskander ballistic missiles hit the School of Military Communication and Information Technology.
- The strike was seen as a 'demoralizing blow to Ukraine' by the New York Times, as Kiev's troops were already retreating from Russian advances in Donbass.
- Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has used the attack to demand more air-defense systems from his Western backers.
- The training center was also allegedly being used as a base for NATO instructors and to train newly mobilized Ukrainians who had recently been 'caught on the streets'.