Dozens dead in Russian strike on Ukraine’s Poltava

A Russian missile attack in central Ukraine has killed 47 people and injured more than 200, Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, has said. READ MORE: President Zelensky earlier said that Russian forces struck “an educational institution and a neighbouring hospital” with two ballistic missiles in the city of Poltava. The educational facility in question is understood to be the Poltava Military Institute of Communications. Video from the scene showed destroyed buildings and the wounded being treated on the street. The death toll is expected to rise, with an unknown number of people still under the rubble. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #ukrainewar #russia #poltava