Two Russian ballistic missiles hit a Ukrainian military institute in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, killing at least 51 and wounding 235, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The attack is being reported as the single deadliest strike in Ukraine of the year. Russia has stepped up its missile and drone attacks across Ukraine in response to the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk, which is being carried out with US weapons and Western intelligence.
Ukrainian officials told AP that the strike on the military institute also hit a nearby hospital. So far, Russia has not commented on the attack, but it has been reported by Russian media.
Vladimir Rogov, chairman of a pro-Russia movement in Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia, said Russian forces delivered the missile strike.
“It was this manpower [of the military school] that was hit by a missile strike. It happened at the moment when they all gathered for their daily routine, when initially there were over half a thousand servicemen. The enemy’s losses amount to hundreds of people,” Rogov said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
TASS also reported that Igor Mosiychuk, a far-right former Ukrainian lawmaker, said that the casualty rate is higher than what’s been reported. “Many people were injured, up to 500, and dozens died. The city hospitals are overcrowded,” he wrote on Telegram.
At least when the Russian Federation hits a school, it's full of legitimate military targets, and not Palestinian children .
Now I sit back and wait for TuBerculosis or other ASI apologists on here to appear and claim that Kiev had secret tunnels and military bases under their…military base so it's OK.
Shush
"At least when the Russian Federation hits a school, it's full of legitimate military targets, and not Palestinian children" let me correct your sentence. "At least when the Russian Federation hits a school, it's full of legitimate military targets, and not Palestinian children acting as human shields for Hamas"
wait your pro-israel?
Cmon man
As if that justifies Israel killing them. The "good guys".
Ahem, there is evidence, pictorial evidence, that the IDF has been using captured Palestinians, even wounded ones, as shields.
What a waste of life.
Where are the real diplomats who can put an end to all of this? Peace talks. Negotiations.
Wait!? The Swedes want to escalate. That Iskander couldn't have happened to a nicer people.
Well if you DECIDE to play the game expect the consequences. Get real people…..
We, the United States of Atrocities stopped peace talks two years ago.
Yes, I know. That doesn’t stop sane, intelligent people from operating in a different way. Where are those people?
Quite sad
RIP our brothers in Poltava
May your spirit fly high in heaven
There is "pie in the sky when you die"
Oooh
Did you mean there is "no pie in the sky when you die"? If so, my upvote stands.
Of what age were the students at this military school? I heard that Sweden had instructors there to help them learn how to use some Swedish military equipment.
https://www.youtube.com/live/a_FjB1IayxY?si=FoviHlO-9fCsc-U_
Good one
A most hilarious comedy of the American Eastern European's fiasco.
Mainstream media starting to see reality. The end is near for Ukraine!
Jimmy Dore Kicks Neocon A$$ again!
Not a children's school, but a military training facility instructing Electronic Warfare EW
A valid military target.
Your brain is a valid military target
Are U calling for violence, death against a poster here?
No and even if I were he is doing the same to me and the Ukrainian people
U are mistaken and ill advised.
Be cool. He is like many posters whose minds are like a dart without feathers.
Ahem, WE, the United States of Atrocities, are killing Ukrainians in a proxy war with Russia, that could have ended in 2022, had not our leerless feeders stopped the negotiations. TWICE!@
Russia wasn’t forced to invade us man. Come to any Eastern European nation, or European nation in general, and say this
Are you sure? I thought it was a Maternity Hospital?
I am sure soon that will be claimed by western media and that the survivors had their heads cut off by Russian troops hiding nearby and the women that survived were violated, over and over again.
You got it, in spades. The broad running for POTUS, what's her name?, is still vomiting the trope about beheaded babies, raped women, that the entire "massacre" on 7Oct was committed by Hamas, ignoring the fact that the IDF killed a large portion of those Israelis that died on 7Oct with their tanks firing projectiles into homes that contained Israelis, as well as Apache helicopter pilots firing on cars fleeing the scene.
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/modis-peace-mission-in-kyiv-is-doomed-to-fail-3176178
In practical terms, how would Russia denazify western Ukraine? Russia has a slow grind strategy that seems intent on impoverishing the guilty or forcing them into Europe via the energy infrastructure bombing operation.
Significant economic, political, and military retaliation against Brussels, Washington, and London is required to remove the snakes' heads.
Assuming a Russian first nuclear strike is essentially off the table despite the back-and-forth banter, I proffer a gold-backed ruble to alter the landscape. If those two options are "impractical," it's doubtful President Trump could prevent Russia's slow, deliberate grind from continuing indefinitely.
As for Zelensky, there are no reasons to resign as his graft operation is quite successful. If he resigns, another US-approved grifter replaces him.
I'm perplexed that any trade exists between Russia and the US. Is it possible Russia could inflict over $330 billion in economic destruction toward Ukraine and NATO countries between now and when President Trump is sworn in for a second term?
Another menace invaded Kursk during WWII. The battle there proved to be pivotal. Hence, the attack on the military training place. And the slow grind.
Rout:
"A defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder: to put an army to rout; to put reason to rout. any overwhelming defeat: a rout of the home team by the state champions."
A fantasy is wanting to win and in losing calling a loss a win!
Shredding fantasy with reality!