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KYIV, Ukraine, 31 Oct (AP) \u2014 U.N investigators on Tuesday urged Russia to acknowledge responsibility for a missile strike on a Ukrainian village that killed 59 civilians, conduct a transparent investigation into what happened, provide reparations for victims and hold those responsible to account.<\/p>\n
The strike on a cafe in the village of Hroza on Oct. 5 was one of the deadliest strikes since the Kremlin\u2019s forces launched a full-scale invasion 20 months ago. Whole families perished while attending a wake for a local soldier who died fighting Russian troops. The blast killed 36 women, 22 men and an 8-year-old boy. Numerous bodies were found torn to pieces, and it took nearly a week to identify all the dead.<\/p>\n
The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in a report published Tuesday it \u201chas reasonable grounds to believe\u201d that a Russian Iskander missile \u2014 a short-range precision-guided ballistic weapon \u2014 probably caused the blast in Hroza.<\/p>\n
The extensive damage and weapon debris at the scene led investigators to that conclusion, the report said.<\/p>\n
It said that Russia \u201ceither failed to undertake all feasible measures to verify that the intended target was a military objective rather than civilians or civilian objects, or deliberately targeted civilians or a civilian object.\u201d<\/p>\n
Either of those explanations amounts to a violation of international humanitarian law, the report said.<\/p>\n
The incident \u201cserves as a stark reminder of the human cost of the war in Ukraine and underscores the necessity of holding perpetrators accountable,\u201d Danielle Bell, head of the U.N. mission in Ukraine, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Kremlin did not directly address the strike in Hroza at the time, but continued to insist that it aims only at legitimate military targets in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s U.N. ambassador, however, told the U.N. Security Council, that \u201ca high-ranking Ukrainian nationalist\u201d and \u201ca lot of neo-Nazi accomplices\u201d were at the wake.<\/p>\n
Neither Moscow nor Kyiv officials made any immediate comment on Tuesday\u2019s report.<\/p>\n
Repeated civilian deaths have weakened Russia\u2019s claim that it doesn\u2019t target civilians.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s presidential office said early Tuesday that one civilian was killed and at least 17 others were injured over the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The death was a woman visiting a cemetery and among the injured were five people traveling on a bus, it said.<\/p>\n
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