Russia has been urged to investigate a missile strike on a Ukrainian village that killed 59 civilians.

The attack on a cafe in the village of Groza in early October was one of the deadliest strikes of the war, killing 36 women, 22 men and an 8-year-old boy at a funeral wake.

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said it “has reasonable grounds to believe” that a Russian Iskander missile — a short-range precision-guided ballistic weapon — probably caused the blast.

The extensive damage and weapon debris at the scene led investigators to that conclusion, the report said.

The incident “serves as a stark reminder of the human cost of the war in Ukraine and underscores the necessity of holding perpetrators accountable,” said Danielle Bell, head of the UN mission in Ukraine.

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