Russia continues to advance on Donetsktaking the town of Zavitne in its advance towards the Pokrovsk stronghold, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Russia launched 78 Shahed drones against Ukraine, shooting down 60as well as a ballistic missile that was not intercepted, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on its social networks.
At the same time Ukraine maintains its presence in Russia’s Kursk regionbut fails to reverse the situation on its front, with an estimated 387 casualties on that date. Putin said that Russian troops are driving Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk region, in response to questions about the war during his speech at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Attack on the Military Institute
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Emergency Services (SES) reported on Thursday that they have completed rescue work following Tuesday’s Russian attack on the Poltava Military Institute of Communications (Central Ukraine)con a final balance of 55 dead and 328 injured.
“Emergency and rescue work at the site of a rocket crash into an educational institution in Poltava has been completed. 55 people were killed, 328 were injured,” the service announced on its Telegram channel. “Specialists are currently identifying the remains of bodies that have been recovered,” the message concluded.
A six-story building was partially destroyed in the attack, which generated more than 2,000 tons of debris which were removed by rescue services in search of buried people.
Ukrainian ground forces on Tuesday acknowledged the deaths of servicemen in the Russian attack on the Military Institute of Communications, but there is no official data on how many of the victims were civilians and how many were soldiers.
The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation to clarify the circumstances surrounding the attack with two missiles and whether there was negligence on the part of the military commanders.
