KYIV, Ukraine, June 5, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Kyiv said on Thursday that two people had died after a Russian strike on army training facilities in eastern Ukraine, days after a similar strike saw a high-ranking officer resign.

Moscow has repeatedly targeted military sites like bases far from the front, spurring online criticism in Ukraine that army officials are not doing enough to secure their safety.

The missile strike in the Poltava region on Wednesday came after an attack Sunday on military training grounds in the industrial Dnipropetrovsk region that killed 12 soldiers.

"Doctors unfortunately failed to save the lives of two people who were wounded as a result of an enemy attack on the training ground," a senior regional official wrote on social media of Wednesday's strike.

Ukrainian media reported that one of those killed was instructor Artem Kutsenko who had been working with the military since Kremlin-backed separatists rose up in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Following the Dnipropetrovsk strike, Commander of the Land Forces Mykhailo Drapaty hand in his resignation and was then moved to another position by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Another Russian strike on a military institute in Poltava last September killed almost 60 people and wounded more than 300.