Ground soiled with blood after horrific village attack in Ukraine

The village of Hroza is usually small, but today there are a lot of cars and people. Something important must have happened.

After driving for a long time through Ukraine’s never-ending countryside, seeing this is shocking.

A ballistic missile is very powerful, and it’s not always easy to see where it landed right away.

Even though there is still a smell of something burning in the air, when you go around a corner, you see the walls that are left of a café and grocery shop that used to be there.

The missile hit a funeral where many people from the village were present. This was because the son wanted to rebury his father, who had been killed and buried in a different place that was controlled by someone else last year.

Now, not only him and his wife, but also 49 other people are gone – nearly 20% of Hroza’s population died all at once.

According to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, every family living in the village in the north-eastern Kharkiv region has been impacted.
The café and grocery shop are surprisingly still standing. Different designs on the wallpaper show that most of the building is no longer visible.

Medical teams left latex gloves on the nearby playground where they found most of the bodies.

You can still see blood marks on the ground.

Spookily, the swings and slide remain in place. Innocent symbols standing out in a sad and desperate situation.

There is a body covered with something lying next to some candles on a tractor tire. A tribute to the 52 people who tragically lost their lives yesterday.

We see Andriy as we travel along a rough road nearby. He says his wife Lyubov was at the funeral gathering yesterday afternoon, but he doesn’t know where she is now.

Andriy was away from home while working.

“He says we can’t locate her. ” We don’t know if she is dead or alive. We are confused about what to do.

Lyubov’s dad went to the police station to give his DNA so they could find out who she is.
The local attorney strongly believes this attack was intentional. The clear use of a powerful missile, which can hit targets with accuracy, supports that statement.

Locals also support this claim by saying that the village usually avoids getting bombed like other nearby settlements do.

But Ukraine’s defense ministry says that Russia caused the attack and there were no military objectives in that area.

This attack was probably driven by the funeral gathering of a Ukrainian soldier.

The prosecutor wants to show me a video he recorded on his phone when he got here yesterday. “It’s quite difficult to watch, but he said that people need to see it. ”

This attack affects more than just the area where it happened, even though there are only 300 people living there.