Debris cleared following Russian missile strike on Poltava: 14 killed, with 3 children among them, 20 injured

Search and rescue operations have been completed at the site of a five-storey residential building in the city of Poltava, destroyed by a Russian missile strike on 1 February:14 people were killed, with 3 children among them.
Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Facebook
Quote: "Search and rescue operations at the site of the destroyed five-storey building in Poltava have been completed.
As a result of the enemy strike, 14 people were killed, including two children aged 9 and 12. Twenty people were injured, among them 4 children aged 3 months, 2, 8, and 12 years. Twenty-two people were rescued. Psychologists from the State Emergency Service and the National Police provided assistance to 206 people, including 11 children."
Updated: After 20:00, the State Emergency Service reported that among the 14 people killed in Poltava, the body of a child was identified.
This brings the number of children killed in the Russian strike to three – aged seven, nine and twelve.
Background:
- On Saturday, 1 February, the Russians struck the city of Poltava, hitting a residential building. A three-day mourning period was declared in the Poltava hromada. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]
- Earlier reports indicated 14 killed and 17 injured.
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