A Russian strike against a military educational facility in central Ukraine killed 47 people and injured at least 206 others, according to Ukrainian officials, in one of the deadliest single attacks since the start of Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022. <\/p>\n
President Volodymyr Zelensky said preliminary information indicated two ballistic missiles hit the facility in the city of Poltava and a nearby hospital on Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe say again and again to everyone in the world who has the power to stop this terror: air defense systems and missiles are needed in Ukraine, not somewhere in a warehouse,\u201d Zelensky said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska announced the latest death toll in an update on Tuesday afternoon, adding: \u201cThis is a terrible tragedy for the whole of Ukraine. Russia is taking away our most valuable asset\u00a0\u2013\u00a0our lives. We will never forget this.\u201d <\/p>\n
Speaking about the attack, President Zelensky repeated his call on Ukraine\u2019s Western allies to supply Kyiv with more air defenses and lift restrictions on his country\u2019s military using their weapons to strike inside Russia. <\/p>\n
\u201cLong-range strikes that can protect against Russian terror are needed now, not later. Every day of delay is, unfortunately, the death of people,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe only way to intercept them was to have the Patriot system or a SAMP\/T air defense system because they are the only one capable of intercepting ballistic missiles,\u201d said Kuleba, who added that he originally came from the Poltava region. <\/p>\n
Ukraine has received a handful of Patriot air defense systems from the United States and Germany, although Kyiv has consistently said the number was insufficient to allow it to effectively defend itself. <\/p>\n
The Biden administration said in June it was\u00a0prioritizing\u00a0critical air defense\u00a0capabilities\u00a0for Ukraine over other countries to \u201censure Ukraine\u2019s survival.\u201d But Kuleba made it clear on Tuesday that new weapons cannot come soon enough. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how many more tragedies like this have to occur for all promises to be fulfilled and for all new commitments to be made,\u201d Kuleba added, reiterating Zelensky\u2019s calls for more defense systems to be sent to Ukraine. <\/p>\n
Local authorities said Tuesday was a \u201cterrible day for Poltava\u201d and declared three days of mourning. No more details would be released about the strike due to \u201csecurity issues,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a statement that emergency services have already contained a fire on the scene and pulled more than 10 people out of the rubble. They are now clearing the debris, he added. <\/p>\n
Klymenko said the strike damaged a number of buildings in the area. Windows were smashed and the facades of high-rise residential blocks were impacted by shock waves from the attack, he said. <\/p>\n
Moscow has not commented on the attack, but a well-known Russian military blogger Vladimir Rogov reported earlier on Tuesday that Russia struck a\u00a0military school in Poltava. <\/p>\n
This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n A Russian strike against a military educational facility in central Ukraine killed 47 people and injured at least 206 others, according to Ukrainian officials, in one of the deadliest single attacks since the start of Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022. President Volodymyr Zelensky said preliminary information indicated two ballistic missiles hit the facility in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}