'Half the village is gone': Ukraine hamlet reels after missile strike

Valeriy Kozyr, 61, cries as he sits next to graves after losing his daughter and other relatives in a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a cemetery outside the village of Hroza, Kharkiv region, Ukraine October 6, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

HROZA, Ukraine (Reuters) -In a burial plot next to a field outside the remote Ukrainian hamlet of Hroza, residents removed undergrowth and cleared away litter to make space for more graves.

Working quietly, it was something to distract them from the horror of what happened the day before.