On October 5, 2023, a Russian missile attack was launched against the village of Hroza in Kharkiv Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. At least 51 people were killed in the attack, including a six-year-old boy.

 　On October 5, 2023, a Russian missile attack was launched against the village of Hroza (Hroza) in Kharkiv Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. At least 51 people were killed in the attack, including a six-year-old boy. A Ukrainian woman wailed beside the dead bodies of at least 51 people, including a six-year-old boy, as their bodies were removed from destroyed buildings throughout the day. At the time, the village of Hroza was holding a wake for the dead from the Russian-Ukrainian war in a cafe. The cafe was hit by a Russian missile attack. The attack was most likely carried out with Iskander ballistic missiles (short-range precision-guided ballistic weapons).

　 On October 5, Russian forces launched a missile attack on a grocery store and cafe in the village of Hroza, Kharkiv Oblast. A memorial service was being held to mark the reburial of Andrei Kozyr (Andriy Kozyr), a Ukrainian soldier killed in action. The Ukrainian army casualty was buried in Dnipro, but his relatives were eager to re-inter him in his native village of Hroza. The burial was organized by the family of the deceased soldier, his son and widow. The son of the soldier who was buried was also drafted into the Akraina army soldiers. The missile attack hit at about 1:15 p.m. on October 5, when at least 60 people gathered at a local café for a residents' memorial service for the fallen. Along with his son, wife, and mother, he was among the 51 people killed in the missile attack that decimated more than half the population of the village of Floza.

　Before the war, the village of Floza, with a population of about 500, was located in the northeastern Kharkiv Oblast and was occupied by Russian forces early in the war until the Ukrainian army recaptured it in September 2022. It is only about 3 km west of Kupiansk, an important Russian military base. Just prior to the missile attack, the number of residents in the village of Khoroza did not exceed 100.

　 The attack on the village of Khoroza, which killed 36 women, 22 men, and one 8-year-old boy, was one of the deadliest attacks since Russia began its full invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 As of October 6, since the beginning of the Russian military invasion, civilian casualties from explosive devices in Ukraine reported approximately 17,095 casualties (5,100 dead, 11,995 injured) (@AOAV).