The number of victims of the rocket attack on Poltava has increased

Another person who was injured in the Russian missile strike on the Institute of Communications on 3 September 2024 died in a Poltava hospital. According to official data, the death toll from this strike has risen to 56 people. This was reported on 8 September by the acting mayor of Poltava, Ekaterina Yamshchikova.

She also noted that 328 people were wounded as a result of the attack.

One more person, injured in the missile attack on the Institute of Communications on 3 September, died in a hospital in Poltava," the report said.

Later it became known that two more people injured in the Russian strike on Poltava on 3 September died in hospitals.

The number of dead increased to 58, - said the head of the OBA Philip Pronin.

We will remind, in the morning of 3 September the Russians hit the Institute of communication in Poltava with two ballistic missiles. Because of the shelling, in particular, one of the buildings of the Institute of communications was partially destroyed. All this time, the number of dead and injured kept rising.