The number of victims of the rocket attack on the village of Groza in Ukraine has increased to 53

The police of the Kharkiv region reported on Tuesday that the identities of 53 people who died as a result of a Russian missile attack on the village of Groza in the Kupyan district have been established at the moment.

“We have identified 53 dead people. Therefore, we can say that today the number of victims has increased. And taking into account the still unidentified remains and reports of missing persons, the final number may increase,” said the head of the investigative department of the regional police, Sergey Bolvynov, at the briefing. Before that, it was reported that 52 people died in the attack on Groza.

According to Bolvynov, 5 people are now considered missing. A total of 22 reports of missing people were received, four of them were found alive, 13 were listed as dead.

On October 5, a Russian rocket hit a cafe-shop in Groze, where at that moment a memorial service was being held for a Ukrainian serviceman who had previously died at the front. Among the victims of the attack were the son and other members of the family of this person. A representative of the regional prosecutor’s office said the day after the attack that only civilians were in the cafe, although the Russian military might have thought that military personnel had gathered there.

Russia’s representative at the UN, Vasyl Nebenzya, said on October 9 that “the funeral of one of the high-ranking Ukrainian nationalists took place in Grose. Of course, many of his accomplices participated in them,” Nebenzya emphasized.

The authorities of Ukraine accused Russia of a targeted terrorist attack against the civilian population.

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