September 2024 Poltava strike

Significance

The September 2024 Poltava strike was the deadliest attack in Poltava Oblast recorded during the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war. Two Russian missiles struck a branch of the Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies and a nearby hospital, killing at least 59 people, leaving 16 missing, and injuring at least 328. President Zelenskyy stated that a building within the military institute was partially destroyed. The strike demonstrated the continued Russian use of missile attacks against military-educational and medical infrastructure well behind the front line, extending the war's lethal reach into cities not proximate to active ground combat.