The Russian ambassador to the United Nations has claimed that dozens of people killed when a missile struck a cafe in eastern Ukraine were neo-Nazis, in a speech to the UN Security Council in New York.
A Russian missile struck the cafe in Hroza, in Kharkiv, on Thursday as locals in the small village turned out for the funeral of a soldier named Andriy Kozyr. The blast killed 52 people in one of the deadliest attacks since the war began.
The death toll was equivalent to 15 per cent of the village’s 330 populace.
United Nations investigators have identified 35 of those killed, Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN undersecretary general, told the Security Council. They included nineteen women, fifteen men and an eight-year-old boy, she said.
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