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Missile event in Ukraine on Tue 3rd September 2024

3rd September 2024

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Ukrainian officials said Russian ballistic missiles hit a military training facility and a hospital in the city of Poltava. At least 50 people were killed in one of the deadliest strikes since the war began.

Two Russian ballistic missiles struck a military college and a nearby hospital in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than 270, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, and local officials, reported.

It was one of the deadliest attacks since the war began in February 2022.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mongolia despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Ukraine has requested that Mongolia hand Putin over to the court in The Hague.

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