Dozens dead after Russian strike on school

More than 40 people died and roughly 180 more suffered injuries in a Russian attack on a school in Poltava, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday. Two Russian ballistic missiles hit an area housing a school and a hospital, Zelenskyy said. The attack damaged a telecommunications center, he added.

What has Russia had to say about the attack? The two ballistic missiles struck a military higher education school, Russian state-run media outlet TASS reported on Tuesday. The Ukrainian military recently trained some of its soldiers on advanced radar and telecommunications at the school, TASS added.

What are other Ukrainian leaders saying about the attack? The attack injured as many as 600 people, Ukrainian lawmaker Igor Mosiychuk said on the social media app Telegram. Mosiychuk said the Ukrainian military leadership shouldn’t have allowed so many personnel to clump together into one location. Ukrainian officers who decided to expose so many troops to such an attack should be held responsible, Mosiychuk said.

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