Missile strike on Hroza kills son and widow of serviceman reburied that day
A wake was being held after the reburial of a Ukrainian serviceman in the village of Hroza, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv Oblast, when 51 people were killed due to a Russian missile strike on 5 October. The serviceman's widow and son, also a soldier, were also killed.
Source: Dmytro Chubenko, press secretary of the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office; Interfax-Ukraine news agency
Quote from Chubenko: "The memorial dinner was being held following the reburial of a fallen Ukrainian soldier. He had previously been buried in the city of Dnipro, and his family wanted to rebury him in his home village. The burial was organised by the deceased soldier's family, namely his son and wife. The reburied man’s son was also a serviceman. The son, his wife and his mother were in the cafe and were killed in the missile strike."
Background:
- On 5 October, Russian troops attacked a cafe and store in the village of Hroza, Kharkiv Oblast. There are 51 confirmed deaths.
- Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, said that a memorial dinner for a deceased resident was being held in the café. He said that the strike was so precise that it is suspected that information leading to the attack had been provided by a local resident.
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