On October 5, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on the village of Groza, Kupyan district, Kharkiv region. Destroyed the local coffee shop. Dozens of people have been killed, reports say Focus.
Everything we know about the tragedy at this time.
▪️ President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky wrote in his Telegram about what happened at 15:45. At first, 48 deaths were reported.
▪️ After that, at 16:00 the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported about the attack, as a result of which 49 people were killed.
▪️ The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Klymenko said that at the time of the attack in the village there was a memorial dinner, every 10 residents died.
▪️ According to the speaker of the head of Kharkiv OV Elena Shapoval, the missile strike on the village of Groza became the most massive in the number of deaths in the region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
▪️ The State Emergency Service reported that at 19:50 in the village of Groza, Kupyan district, rescuers stopped searching for people under the rubble. The death toll remains the same as previously reported — 51 people (of whom 1 child was born in 2017), 6 people were injured.
“One of the most difficult moments during the shooting was when the phone of the deceased person rang. Documents, phones, things that they found were collected in one place,” Jacob shared.
Yakiv Liashenko — Ukrainian photographer from Kharkov. He began his professional career in 2012. After the start of a full-scale invasion, he worked as a fixer for famous photographers and in parallel documented the events of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Currently a freelance photojournalist at EPA Agency.
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