BBC Verify Live: Ukraine city strike caught on dashcam, and Mali militants attack town
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BBC Verify Live: Ukraine city strike caught on dashcam, and Mali militants attack town
Three clips show at least two strikes on a military enlistment complex in Poltava. The Ukrainian Ground Forces has said civilians have been killed and injured. One video is filmed from a high angle and shows the rough area of the city centre close to where the enlistment office is located. The other two clips were filmed at street level and provide more detail.
Fridon Kiria and Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Monitoring Russia Team and BBC Verify senior journalist
Three clips we’ve reviewed this morning show at least two strikes on a military enlistment complex in the city of Poltava, in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Ground Forces has said civilians have been killed and injured but have yet to provide further details.
One video is filmed from a high angle and shows the rough area of the explosion is to the west of the city centre close to where the Poltava enlistment office is located.
The other two clips we’ve seen were filmed at street level – closer to the junction of Shevchenka St and Sinna St – and provide more detail.
One, from a car dashcam, shows smoke and an explosion at a building listed as the regional enlistment office. A delta-winged drone, possibly a Shahed, then flies into this building causing a second explosion.
We can see that the weather in all three videos is the same and the position of the shadows of other cars confirm the strike recorded by the dashcam was at a little before 09:00 local time.
This is the same time that the Ukrainian Ground Forces said the attack happened.
One note of caution, the date and time stamp on the dashcam video doesn’t match this, but may have been set incorrectly.