Ukraine war: Village children of Hroza orphaned by Russian missile - BBC News

Dozens of children were orphaned the day a missile hit the village of Hroza in October 2023, killing 59.

12 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineImage caption, Dima Panteleyev looks at the graves of his mum, dad and grandparents who were all killed in one missile attackBy Zhanna Bezpiatchuk in HrozaBBC UkrainianTeenager Dima lost his mum, dad and two grandparents when they were all killed in a missile attack on his village of Hroza in north-eastern Ukraine last October.

"I still can't grasp it completely," the 16-year-old tells me.

"Now I am responsible for our house," he says.

He adds that he feels most sorry for his youngest sister: "Before this happened she didn't like it when I hugged her. Now she wants to hug me all the time."

On 5 October 2023, a missile struck a cafe in Hroza, in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, killing 59 people - a fifth of the village's total population.

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