All victims of missile strike on Hroza village in Kharkiv region have been identified: Russians killed 59 people
As a result of a Russian strike on a cafe in Hroza village in the Kharkiv region, 59 people were killed.
This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko, Censor.NET reports.
"The Russians killed 59 people with a direct hit of the "Iskander" in Hroza village. All victims are local residents. Pensioners, doctors, farmers, teachers, entrepreneurs. All of them are civilians. Whole families died in several generations.
19 people were identified using mobile DNA laboratories. For 6 days, police criminologists took samples from relatives around the clock, displayed profiles and looked for matches of fragments.
One of the dead, a 60-year-old man, was identified on 20 body parts by forensic experts. Two more people were identified with the help of personal belongings seized from the homes of the victims since they did not have relatives of the direct line to compare DNA profiles," the statement said.
According to Klymenko, enormous and unprecedented work was carried out by investigators and criminalists of the police of the Kharkiv region. Including thanks to modern mobile DNA laboratories.
"Without them, the process of identifying such a large number of bodies and parts would take about a year. It was important for us to establish the name of each dead person, preserve their memory and record all the victims of the Russian strike," the minister concluded.
