What do we know about deadly Russian attack on Ukraine?

Two ballistic missiles have killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds in the city of Poltava in central Ukraine.

The attack is one of the deadliest carried out by Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Sky's Military Analyst Sean Bell explains what we know so far.

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[escallite]

The Russian strike hit civilians dressed as soldiers.

[neilthomas]

Even ZELENSKY says it was a military training institute. But Sky news chooses to call it an educational facility.

[rocketman]

Those Russians shovels controlled via electronics of old washing machine must be quite strong!

[soundscare]

We know that 100% of your analysis is 100% wrong.

[ART-gxsn]

Even Ukrainian Wikipedia already states that it was a military school.

[georgesnguru]

Military personnel were targeted there, how is that hard to say?

[hasanhusidic]

I never imagine that those shovels can be so accurate and deadly.

[vitcrosby]

Why are they lying. It was a military training center. There is a footage

[Arthurjones-xtwv]

Glad people are waking up to the lies of MSM, these people have been telling lies since the beginning, the Building was Military training school, and there was an ongoing training imparted to Ukrainians regarding 2 Awacs reconnaissance Aircrafts that are being supplied by Sweden, the causality is well above 100+ which included Swedish Trainers and Ukrainian soldiers and Mercenaries.

[francescogalesso]

How much hesitation in these mainstream experts. Maybe, it could ... Fear of losing your allowance?

[DesireSmiotene]

I thought this analyst told us not to worry last year because the Russians are out of missiles?

[DarrenGibbons-xifq]

Cant be true sky news been saying for months Ukraine are winning 😂😂😂😂😂

[rdvision-fjhm]

Military training facility = military Target

[PB-xrjl]

So if someone fires say 10 missiles and 10 are shot down, why were 8 targets hit with 8 explosions ?

[mugambigitobu]

Why is it hard to say it was a military school

[TheDjtvi]

no speculation, it is a fact- a military school with foreign military advisers. obviously their advices were not very good.

[ryanrimmer]

Just tell the truth sky news. Why sugar coat it?

[namur-iqih]

A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian Military Institute of Communications in Poltava has at least killed 41 (nearly 300 casualties, according to Ukrainian officials). Poltava is about 120 kilometers from the Russian border. The warning times after the missile launch was allegedly too short for everyone to reach the bunkers. The Institute of Communications is training radio and radar operators. Its main multi-story building has been completely destroyed. Britta Ellwanger, a (former?) Swedish volunteer with the Ukrainian army wrote that Swedish friends of hers, also volunteering with the Ukrainian army, were among those who died in the strike.

Sweden had promised to gift two Swedish AWACS planes to Ukraine: Sweden has announced sending its Saab 340B AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning and Control) aircraft to Kyiv, as per an announcement made by its defense ministry on May 29, 2024.

Given the nature of the Institute of Communications in Poltava it is likely that the Swedes were training Ukrainian operators for those.

One wonders why the training was not held elsewhere.

The Swedes should have remembered the history of that city:

The Battle of Poltava[e] (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. The Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated the Swedish army under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle put an end to the status of the Swedish Empire as a European great power, as well as its eastbound expansion, and marked the beginning of Russian supremacy in eastern Europe.

Swedish and NATO attempts to change that status of Russia in eastern Europe more than 300 years after it had been achieved has ended in failure.

[krajasoma]

It's a military facility !!! Not a civilian !!!

[wilburie]

Ukraine still using educational establishments to billet soldiers.