Zelensky says 41 killed in Russian attack on Ukrainian city

A Russian strike against a military educational facility in Poltava, central Ukraine, has killed 41 people and injured more than 180 others, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.

Zelensky said that according to preliminary information, two ballistic missiles hit the facility and a nearby hospital on Tuesday morning.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the time between the air raid alarm and the strike was “so short” that it caught people as they were trying to get into the bomb shelter.

According to CNN, Moscow has not commented on the attack, but a well-known Russian military blogger Vladimir Rogov reported earlier on Tuesday that Russia struck a military school in Poltava.

Meanwhile the BBC reports that Ukraine's President Zelensky, says the preliminary report suggests the eastern city was hit by two Russian ballistic missiles.

He says that at least 41 people have been killed and 180 injured, with some dragged out from under the rubble and saved.

He says the missiles hit the "territory of an educational institution and a nearby hospital".

One of the buildings of the Institute of Communications was partially destroyed, he says.

Source: BBC