.Russia's Protection Administrative agency mentioned Wednesday that its dangerous strike on the core Ukrainian metropolitan area of Poltava targeted a drone and also electronic combat training facility.A minimum of 53 folks were killed and also 298 others were actually injured in Tuesday's strike on an armed forces institute and also close-by healthcare facility in the core city of Poltava. Ukrainian authorizations carried out certainly not point out the number of of the preys were armed forces or even noncombatant." Russia's armed forces performed a precision strike on the 179th shared instruction facility of the Ukrainian soldiers in the urban area of Poltava," the Russian Defense Ministry stated in an everyday instruction.The administrative agency asserted that Ukrainian interactions and also electronic combat experts, as well as drone operators involved in strikes on Russian area, were actually being actually trained at the facility "under the advice of international instructors.".According to AFP, the Poltava military communications institute, founded in the 1960s when Ukraine was actually still an aspect of the U.S.S.R., focuses on training telecom professionals.The strike triggered rage on Ukrainian social media sites after unconfirmed files said it had actually targeted an outside army service, with many criticizing careless habits from representatives that enabled the celebration to take place in spite of the hazard of Russian strikes.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky claimed he had ordered a "complete and also punctual investigation right into all the circumstances.".AFP contributed coverage.