.Russia's Defense Department pointed out Wednesday that its dangerous strike on the core Ukrainian metropolitan area of Poltava targeted a drone and also digital combat training center.At the very least 53 people were eliminated and 298 others were hurt in Tuesday's strike on an armed forces principle and also surrounding medical center in the main urban area of Poltava. Ukrainian authorizations did not point out the number of of the victims were armed forces or even noncombatant." Russia's armed forces carried out a precision strike on the 179th shared instruction facility of the Ukrainian military in the metropolitan area of Poltava," the Russian Defense Department said in a day-to-day instruction.The department asserted that Ukrainian interactions and also digital war professionals, along with drone operators associated with strikes on Russian area, were actually being trained at the facility "under the guidance of foreign trainers.".According to AFP, the Poltava armed forces communications principle, established in the 1960s when Ukraine was actually still a portion of the U.S.S.R., focuses on training telecommunications professionals.The strike activated anger on Ukrainian social media after unofficial reports said it had targeted an outside army ceremony, along with numerous pointing the finger at negligent actions from authorities that enabled the occasion to occur even with the threat of Russian assaults.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky stated he had actually purchased a "complete and also immediate inspection right into all the conditions.".AFP added reporting.