Police forensic experts have identified all the victims of a missile attack on a cafe in Kharkiv Region, says the interior ministry head Ihor Klymenko.
"59 people were killed by Russians with a direct hit from an Iskander in the village of Hroza. All the victims were local residents. Pensioners, doctors, farmers, teachers, entrepreneurs. All of them were civilians. Entire families of several generations were killed," said Klymenko.
It is noted that 19 people were identified using mobile DNA laboratories. For 6 days, police forensic scientists were taking samples from relatives, developing profiles and looking for matching fragments.
Forensic experts identified one of the victims, a 60-year-old man, from 20 body parts. Two more people were identified using personal belongings seized from the victims' homes, as they had no direct line relatives to compare DNA profiles.
Klymenko also noted that the work was completed in such a short time thanks to modern mobile DNA laboratories. Without them, it would have taken about a year to identify such a large number of bodies and fragments.