The missile attack on a cafe in the village of Groza, Kharkov region, on October 5 was deliberately carried out by Russian troops.
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As a result of this attack, 59 people who attended the memorial dinner for the fallen soldier were killed. The victims were 36 women, 22 men and an eight-year-old boy. All the dead are civilians. Near the cafe that was hit by an enemy missile, there were no signs of the presence of Ukrainian military personnel. This is stated in the report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
As we said then, this was one of the deadliest incidents for civilians since February 2022, the material notes.
The United Nations concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that “the missile was launched by Russian military forces, and that there was no indication of the presence of military personnel or any other legitimate military targets on or near the premises of the cafe at the time attacks.”
The UN emphasized that the report is based on information collected and verified by representatives of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, who conducted two missions to Groza on October 7 and 10. Witnesses, local residents, medical personnel and morgue employees were interviewed.
The Russian military either did not do everything possible to verify that the target was a military objective, or specifically targeted civilians or civilian objects, the document says.
Let us remind you that the Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko reported that the invaders killed 59 people in the village of Groza with an Iskander missile. All victims were local residents. These are pensioners, doctors, farmers, teachers, entrepreneurs. Whole families of several generations died.
Source: Racurs
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