attack – For “20 Minutes”, expert Guillaume Lasconjarias analyzes the Russian missile strike that left more than 50 dead and around 300 injured on Tuesday in the city of Poltava in Ukraine.
“There was very little time between the sounding of the air-raid sirens and the explosion,” Volodymyr told the Washington Post. Then, “a second missile arrived” very quickly. “Everyone is in shock.”
A Russian strike on Tuesday in Poltava (Ukraine), a city located about 300 kilometers east of kyiv, left at least 53 dead and about 300 injured, according to a new report published on Wednesday. It targeted in particular a group of soldiers gathered for an open-air ceremony, on the site of the Institute of Telecommunications, an establishment founded in the 1960s and which trains specialists in military telecommunications. “One of the buildings of the Institute was partially destroyed,” detailed President Zelensky in a video message, who specified that two ballistic missiles had hit “an educational establishment and a neighboring hospital.”
Information collected “by drone” or via “a communication channel”
“Everything seems to indicate that this was a strike of opportunity,” analysis for 20 Minutes Guillaume Lasconjarias, military historian and associate professor at Sorbonne University. A military ceremony does not (…) - 20minutes
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