Russian Armed Forces attacked a shop and cafe in Hroza, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, on 5 October 2023, at 1:15 p.m.
The attack was conducted while residents gathered in a memorial service at the cafe, killing at least 52 people and injuring at least 7 others. Among those killed in the airstrike was a six-year-old boy. Ukraine said the attack used an Iskander ballistic missile. The attack took place as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The memorial service, where the residents were gathered when they were killed, was for a Ukrainian soldier. Local prosecutor Dmytro Chubenko said that the soldier's widow, son, who was also a soldier, and daughter-in-law were among those killed in the attack.
According to the Ukrainian minister of internal affairs, Ihor Klymenko, Hroza had a population of 330 people prior to the attack.[2] Hroza was captured by Russian forces early in the invasion, and liberated by Ukraine during the Kharkiv counteroffensive, in September 2022.[5] The governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Synyehubov, confirmed that all those killed were residents of Hroza, with this airstrike having killed 10% of the village's pre-war population (about 501 in 2020).