Death toll in Hroza’s community of 330 people means one in every six residents killed in Russian missile strike — “All the people are local residents, all the people are civilians. Not a single military object, not a single military vehicle,” says official

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1. CNN correspondents in Hroza:^1

   >The death toll in such a small community of 330 people means one in every six residents was killed.

   >“All the people are local residents, all the people are civilians. Not a single military object, not a single military vehicle. All the dead and wounded people are civilians,” Sergey Bolvinov, the chief investigator with Kharkiv’s regional police, told CNN in Hroza.

   >Investigators and forensic teams worked through the night sifting through the rubble and trying to count and identify the bodies, many of which were in bad condition due to the force of the blast, according to a CNN team at the scene.

   >A local man whose wife died in the strike could be seen crouching over her body, too shaken to speak and unable to leave her side. He later helped emergency services lift her body onto a truck to be taken away.

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   >Dozens of residents had gathered Thursday at the cafe in Hroza to mourn the death of a local Ukrainian soldier when the missile ripped through the building, completely destroying it, Ukrainian officials said.

   >The soldier had previously been buried in the city of Dnipro, but his relatives wanted him to be reburied in the village where he was originally from, Dmytro Chubenko, spokesperson for the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, told Ukrainian media outlet RBC.

   >The blast killed several members of the soldier’s family including his son, Chubenko said.

   ^1 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/06/europe/ukraine-hroza-russian-missile-attack-civilians-intl-hnk/index.html

2. *Genocide.*