At least 51 people were killed and more than 200 injured Tuesday in a Russian missile strike on a military training facility and nearby hospital in central Ukraine, officials in the country said.
Two ballistic missiles hit an “educational institution” and a nearby hospital in the city of Poltava, 190 miles southeast of Kyiv, the capital, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video post on the Telegram messaging app. He added that one of the buildings of the Poltava Military Institute of Communication was partially destroyed.
Zelenskyy said in a statement that 51 people were killed and 271 were injured.
NBC News was able to geolocate a video showing bomb damage to the 179th Training Center of Signal Forces for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Poltava.
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