Russia claims it destroyed a “military training center” in Ukraine

MoscowRussia said on Wednesday that ballistic missiles Iskander-M The bombings launched last Tuesday in the Ukrainian city of Poltava destroyed “a military training center run by foreign instructors, which trained specialists in communications and electronic warfare for the Ukrainian army.”

The Russian Ministry of Defence adds in its daily war report that this centre – the Poltava Military Institute of Communications – trains drone operators who “are used in attacks against civilian targets in the Russian Federation”.

According to the latest data from the Ukrainian emergency services, at least 53 people were killed and 298 injured as a result of this attack, one of the deadliest since the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022.

The commission set up by President Volodymyr Zelensky has yet to clarify all the circumstances surrounding the attack and, above all, answer the question that has been causing outrage on Ukrainian social media since yesterday (Tuesday): is it true that the high number of victims was due to the fact that the students were lined up on an open-air esplanade in front of the main building of the Institute at a ceremony to mark the opening of the new school year?

If so, many in Ukraine are demanding that the person responsible for such negligence be punished. It may not be related, but it was noteworthy that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Syrskyi, on Tuesday dismissed Roman Gladky, who was the chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian forces.

unmanned systems, a recently created branch of the army to coordinate the use of drones on battlefields, whose operators are trained at the Poltava Military Institute of Communications.

On the other hand, in what is announced as a thorough reshuffle of the Ukrainian government this week that will involve the replacement of half of the ministers – as announced by the head of the majority bloc in the Legislature, Sluga Naroda (Servant of the People), David Arajamia – the Verkhovna Rada approved four resignations on Wednesday, rejected two and one more, that of Foreign Minister Dmytro

Kuleba, there was no time to put it to a vote. It is assumed that Denys Shmyhal will remain as prime minister and, based on what President Zelensky said about “giving new strength” to the

Ukrainian institutions are expected to see changes in the way ministries operate, although it is not ruled out that some may be merged and others may be created, all in order to reduce expenses and meet other needs arising from the war.

Although it is not excluded that some ministers will be relocated in the cabinet, on Wednesday the Rada deputies accepted the resignations of Olga Stefanyshina, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration; Oleksandr Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Industries; Denys Maliuska, Minister of Justice; and Ruslan Strilets, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.

Due to a lack of votes, the resignations of Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, and Vitaliy Koval, head of the State Property Fund, were rejected.

The new composition of the government, according to the Ukrainian press, will be announced on Thursday and some ministers on Friday, but many analysts in the country believe that, in light of the news coming from the battlefields, this is a topic that is of less and less interest to the population.

In addition, they estimate, the government has recently lost influence, while real power is concentrated in the Office of the President, which reports directly to Zelensky.