The previous missile attack on Hroza was one of the most destructive attacks on a civilian target of the entire war.
Early on Friday morning, Russia launched two more missile strikes in the Kharkiv region.
– Russia has again targeted civilians. The body of a 10-year-old child was found in the ruins, says Ukraine’s interior minister Ihor Klymenko in the bulletin.
One Iskander missile hit a three-story residential building and the other hit the street, writes the regional director Oleh Sinjehubov In Telegram.
The 10-year-old boy who was left in the ruins of the house died in the impact, says Sinjehubov. In addition, 23 people were injured in the attack, including an 11-month-old child.
Thursday’s attack was the most destructive of the war
Russia also attacked the civilian population of the Kharkiv region yesterday, Thursday. The attack on the village of Hroza was one of the most devastating single attacks on civilians in the entire war, and the most devastating this year.
More than half of the inhabitants of the village in the Kharkiv region died in the attack. According to the authorities, 52 people died in the missile strike.
At first, the number of inhabitants of the village was said to be 330, but later the authorities clarified that at the time of the attack, less than a hundred people lived in Hroza, says The Kyiv Independent.
– There were people from every family in the village. This is a terrible tragedy, said Interior Minister Klymenko.
The Iskander missile hit a cafe and a shop while the funeral and memorial service of a fallen Ukrainian soldier was taking place in the area, says the district prosecutor’s office Ukrainian media by.
Among the dead were the widow of a soldier who fell on the front, their son and his wife.
– All the dead were civilians, mostly women and the elderly. Ordinary people who had gathered together to bury and remember a fallen villager, said a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office Dmytro Chubenko news agency Ukrinformin by.
EU: “Russia’s atrocities rose to a new level”
Hroza’s missile strike has been widely condemned in Western countries. Intentional attacks on civilian targets are war crimes, reminded the EU’s high foreign policy representative Josep Borrell message service in X.
– The bloody attacks on civilians in Hroza and Kupyansk raised Russia’s atrocities to a new dark level. Russia has once again shown that it will not let up on its terror against the people of Ukraine, Borrell wrote.
In the United States, the press secretary of the White House Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the attack as a “terrible” reminder of “why we are doing everything we can to help Ukraine”, says the British newspaper The Guardian. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he considered the attack to be an indication of the “deep corruption of the Russian forces”.
– As long as bombs fall on supermarkets and cafes, we will do everything we can to protect Ukraine from Putin’s rocket terror, said the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
Before the recent Hroza missile attack, the deadliest attack on civilians this year was the January attack on an apartment building in Dnipro, where more than 40 people died.
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR has managed to confirm more than 9,600 civilian casualties in Ukraine since Russia’s major offensive began last year. In addition, more than 17,500 civilians have been confirmed injured.
According to OHCHR, the actual number of civilian victims of the war is still much higher than what has been officially confirmed.
Sources: AFP, Reuters
Story and title updated at 10:12. Added information about Friday morning’s attacks in the Kharkiv area, as well as updated the victim count of the Hroza attack.