.Russia's Defense Ministry claimed Wednesday that its dangerous strike on the core Ukrainian city of Poltava targeted a drone and also electronic war training center.A minimum of 53 people were actually eliminated as well as 298 others were wounded in Tuesday's strike on a military institute and neighboring healthcare facility in the central city of Poltava. Ukrainian authorizations did certainly not say the number of of the sufferers were military or civilian." Russia's militaries performed a preciseness strike on the 179th joint training center of the Ukrainian soldiers in the urban area of Poltava," the Russian Protection Ministry said in an everyday briefing.The ministry declared that Ukrainian interactions and also electronic combat experts, along with drone operators involved in strikes on Russian area, were actually being educated at the center "under the advice of international coaches.".Depending on to AFP, the Poltava armed forces interactions institute, established in the 1960s when Ukraine was actually still an aspect of the U.S.S.R., focuses on training telecommunications specialists.The strike induced temper on Ukrainian social media sites after unconfirmed documents stated it had actually targeted an outside military ceremony, along with lots of blaming reckless actions coming from officials that permitted the activity to occur regardless of the threat of Russian attacks.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned he had ordered a "total and timely investigation into all the situations.".AFP contributed reporting.