Suspicions haunt grieving Ukrainian village

Issued on: 08/04/2024 – 18:23 03:21 Suspicions haunt grieving Ukrainian village (2024) © AFP / France 24 Residents of the village of Groza, in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, are still grieving after a missile strike killed 59 people in October. Suspicions are also mounting, particularly of residents deemed pro-Russian. Local authorities say two of their […]

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Suspicions haunt grieving Ukrainian village (2024)

Suspicions haunt grieving Ukrainian village (2024) © AFP / France 24

Residents of the village of Groza, in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, are still grieving after a missile strike killed 59 people in October. Suspicions are also mounting, particularly of residents deemed pro-Russian. Local authorities say two of their own – brothers Volodymyr and Dmytro Mamon – gave Moscow the coordinates that enabled Russian forces to fire an Iskander missile at a local soldier’s wake. “What for? You goddamned idiots,” Volodymyr Mukhovaty, who lost Tanya, his wife of 47 years, in the strike asks.

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