Two Ukrainian ‘traitors’ responsible for deadly strike on Hroza wake, says Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says it has identified the informers responsible for the October 5 missile strike on Hroza as two Ukrainian brothers from the region, who defected to the Russian side during the Russian occupation. The attack claimed 55 lives.

The SBU says that 30-year-old Volodymyr Mamon and his younger brother, 23-year-old Dmytro Mamon, both of whom moved to Russia when the Kharkiv region was liberated and continued to work for the Russian military, planned the attack.

On the instructions of the Russian military, the two men “remotely formed their own network of informants in Ukrainian-controlled territory,” the SBU said. In early October, they began gathering information about the planned reburial of a Ukrainian soldier in the village of Hroza. “At the same time, they knew that civilians would certainly die as a result of [the] attack,” including people they knew, and people who had given them the information, the SBU added, saying that it was Volodymyr Mamon who gave the exact time and place of the wake to the Russian military.

Both defendants are charged with treason; Volodymyr Mamon is also charged with violating the laws and customs of war.