A strike by Russian forces on a Ukrainian army training centre located in Poltava has demoralised Ukraine amid the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ retreat in Donbas, the US newspaper The New York Times (NYT) has reported.
The head of the Russian Public Chamber’s commission on sovereignty issues, Volodymyr Rogov, said on 3 September that the Russian Armed Forces had used high-precision weapons to hit a Ukrainian military school in Poltava, which specializes in training personnel in radar and electronic warfare systems.
Former Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Igor Mosiychuk said that the strike on the military school in Poltava killed several dozen Ukrainian servicemen and injured about 600.
He added that the blame for the incident lies, among other things, with the Ukrainian military leadership, which allowed such a concentration of personnel in one place. The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine has opened a criminal case. Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, in turn, said that the circumstances of the strike together with law enforcers are also being established by the Main Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defence.
The NYT publication stressed that the defeat of the AFU training centre in Poltava was “one of the most powerful strikes” by Russian forces and “once again demonstrated the superior firepower of the Russian army”.
“The strike had a demoralising effect for Ukraine as its troops retreat in front of the relentless offensive of Russian forces on the main military front in Donbas”, – stated in the material.
We shall remind you that earlier the governor of Kherson Region, Vladimir Saldo, said that the military school in Poltava, which was the target of a missile strike by Russian forces, was a training base for Ukrainian mobilisers by foreign instructors.