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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shaun Walker in Kyiv, and Peter Beaumont

Russian attack in Ukrainian city of Poltava kills at least 50 people

Ukraine has experienced one of the deadliest attacks of the war after a Russian missile strike on the central city of Poltava hit a military training institute and a nearby hospital, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200 others.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in a video address that, according to preliminary information, two ballistic missiles had “partially destroyed” one of the buildings of the Poltava Military Institute of Communications, leaving people under the rubble.

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