UN human rights chief deploys field team to probe Russian attack on Hroza village
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHR) said on Friday they have deployed a field team to probe the Russian attack in the Ukrainian village of Hroza that left at least 52 people dead.
Moscow’s forces targeted a cafe and a shop in Hroza, with what Ukrainian officials say was a powerful Iskander ballistic missile on Thursday.
“UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, who saw for himself the horrific impact of such strikes, is profoundly shocked and condemns this killing,” Elizabeth Throssell, spokesperson for the OHCHR said in a statement.
He has deployed a field team to the site to speak to survivors and gather more information.”
Throssell said Thursday’s attack underscores how Ukrainian civilians are “once again” paying the “terrible price” of Russia’s invasion.
According to the UN’s Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Throssell said the names of 35 people who were killed have been established but did not detail the names.
Some context: Moscow’s forces targeted a cafe and a shop in Hroza, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, with what Ukrainian officials say was a powerful Iskander ballistic missile, killing at least 52 people, including a 6-year-old boy.
Scenes emerged of emergency workers wading through dense rubble in the aftermath of the strike – a scale of devastation not seen since a Russian attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk in early 2022.
The death toll in such a small community of 330 people means one in every six residents was killed.
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