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| Poltava rocket artillery strike aftermath: 500 specialists were killed in the strike in Poltava |
| 2024-09-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] About 500 military specialists, including mercenaries from Poland, France, Germany and Sweden, were killed and wounded on September 3 as a result of a missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the Ukrainian Armed Forces training center in Poltava. This was reported to journalists by a high-ranking military source. “[A] group missile strike by the Iskander-M OTRK was launched against the 179th Joint Training Center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Signal Corps in Poltava,” TASS quoted the source as saying on September 6. He specified that foreigners trained Ukrainian military personnel at the center. Also, during the attack, there were many dead and wounded among Ukrainian communications specialists, as well as operators of electronic warfare, electronic intelligence, and drones. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Russian Armed Forces struck the Ukrainian Armed Forces training center in Poltava on September 3. A Ukrainian blogger reported that after this, more than 760 bodies were delivered to the city morgue. Ukrainian military expert Dmitry Snegiryov called the attack on the Poltava military center a disaster, since specialists valued at the front "worth their weight in gold" were trained there. According to him, the military facility was attacked when the personnel went out to form up. |
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