A Russian missile attack has killed at least 51 people and injured more than 200 in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, officials have said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said two ballistic missiles struck the territory of an educational institution and a nearby hospital on Tuesday. A building on a campus of the Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies was partially destroyed, he added.
The blast waves from the explosions damaged several more buildings nearby and shattered windows, interior minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on messaging platform Telegram. Zelenskyy initially said 41 people had been killed before the prosecutor-general’s office reported that the toll had increased to 51, with more than 200 injured.