Rescuers have finished work at the site of a Russian missile impact in the village of Groza, Kharkiv region, Serhii Bolvinov, head of the Police Investigation Department in the region, said.
Three specially trained service dogs helped search for the dead under the rubble. The number of killed and wounded did not change — 51 people died, six were wounded. Four people are missing, including two children.
At the scene of the tragedy, 11 body fragments were removed. They were sent for a DNA examination. Law enforcement officers are working with relatives of the victims in Grozny and in nearby Shevchenkov, as well as in one of the Kharkiv morgues, where the bodies and fragments of the victimsʼ bodies were taken.
- Groza is a village in the Shevchenkiv settlement community of the Kupyan district of the Kharkiv region, its area is almost two square kilometers. According to Kharkiv Region Police Chief Volodymyr Tymoshko, as of October 5, 330 people lived in the village.
- On October 5, during a memorial dinner held in honor of a fallen soldier, the Russians hit the village with an "Iskander M" missile. 51 people died. Six people were injured. The head of Kharkiv OVA Sinegubov says that all the dead were residents of the village.
- A three-day mourning was announced in the Kharkiv region — from October 6 to 8.