A Deadly Strike on a Ukrainian Village Was Probably an Inside Job: Who Tipped Off the Russians?

A missile attack on a cafe wiped out a fifth of the residents and raised suspicions it was initiated by neighbors who backed the Russian invasion
Lyudmila Dolganina standing at the site of a cafe in Hroza, Ukraine, where her father and aunt were killed in a Russian missile attack.

HROZA, Ukraine—When the Mamon brothers were growing up in this farming village near the border with Russia, Andriy Kozyr would occasionally stop by the family’s house. Once, returning from a construction job abroad, he brought them a scooter and a toy gun, plus cognac for their parents.

That’s how people got along in Hroza before the Russians marched in early last year. The invasion split the village into enemy camps. Kozyr enlisted in the Ukrainian military and was killed in action. The Mamon brothers went to work for the Russian forces occupying Hroza.