Russian missiles attack industrial infrastructure in Poltava region: casualties reported

Two people were killed in the central Poltava region on the night of Monday, August 28, by a Russian attack. Two more are injured, and two more people are being searched for.

Rubryka reports, citing the statement of the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration, Dmytro Lunin, that two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. According to the head of the region, the whereabouts of two more people are currently unknown.

"Search operations and demolition of rubble are ongoing. The production workshop was also completely destroyed," Lunin added.

The number of people injured by the rocket attack in the Poltava region has increased to five people.

As the head of the Office of the President, Andrii Yermak, reported, the Russians launched a rocket attack on the village of Hoholeve, Myrhorod district, Poltava region.

"The explosion caused a fire at the premises of the oil mill. Currently, we know that two people were killed and five were injured. People worked in the night shift," he said on his Telegram channel.

Russian attack on Ukraine on August 28

On the morning of Monday, August 28, an air alert was announced in several regions of Ukraine. The Air Forces warned that there is a missile threat, mainly possible launches of Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea. Soon, the air raid warning spread to the west of Ukraine.

Later, it became known that an industrial facility was destroyed in the Poltava region, and private houses were struck in Kryvyi Rih during a missile attack on Ukraine.

Rubryka reported that on the night of August 27, a large-scale air alert sounded throughout the country, and the Russian forces launched cruise missiles toward Kyiv. Air defense forces shot down all Russian aerial targets.

Anti-aircraft defense shot down four air targets in the Ukrainian sky. As the pilots reported, the cruise missiles were fired from five strategic aviation planes from the airspace of the Russian Federation in the Engels region.