.Russia's Self defense Ministry claimed Wednesday that its lethal strike on the main Ukrainian metropolitan area of Poltava targeted a drone and also digital combat training center.A minimum of 53 individuals were killed and 298 others were injured or hurt in Tuesday's assault on an armed forces principle and also nearby health center in the core metropolitan area of Poltava. Ukrainian authorizations carried out not state how many of the targets were army or even private." Russia's militaries accomplished an accuracy strike on the 179th joint training center of the Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Poltava," the Russian Self defense Department stated in a regular instruction.The department asserted that Ukrainian communications and digital combat professionals, as well as drone operators involved in strikes on Russian territory, were actually being actually trained at the center "under the guidance of foreign instructors.".Depending on to AFP, the Poltava military communications principle, founded in the 1960s when Ukraine was still a portion of the U.S.S.R., specializes in training telecom professionals.The strike caused rage on Ukrainian social networks after unofficial files stated it had actually targeted an outside military ceremony, with lots of criticizing reckless behavior coming from officials who permitted the occasion to occur in spite of the danger of Russian attacks.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated he had actually ordered a "full and punctual examination in to all the instances.".AFP contributed reporting.