On May 5, two employees of an oil and gas company and two rescue workers were killed in a Russian attack on the Poltava region. Thirty-seven people are known to have been wounded, some of them seriously.
This was reported by the head of the Poltava Regional State Administration, Vitaliy Dyakivnych.
May 5 and 6 have been declared days of mourning in the Poltava region.
According to updated information, one of the oil and gas company employees was killed in the Kharkiv region. As of now, the death toll in the Poltava region stands at four people,” the statement reads.
As a reminder, on the night of May 5, Russian forces attacked a gas production facility in the Poltava region.
During the attack, Russian forces employed a follow-up strike tactic—when State Emergency Service units arrived at the scene and began extinguishing a massive fire, the Russians struck them with a missile.
