During the Russian missile strike on the training center in Elite pilot cadets were killed in Poltava on September 3. This was stated on the air of the TV channel "News Factory" by the commander of the intelligence unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Denis Yaroslavsky.
"In Poltava, a really military facility was destroyed, because there were pilot cadets there. This is the elite of the army," Yaroslavsky said, quoted by RIA Novosti.
He expressed outrage that hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers were in one place.
"I don't even have the words to describe the madness of such an act. We are not going to separate on the line of engagement anymore," he stressed.