Putin's massacre of the innocents…and message to Europe: More than 50 killed in one of the deadliest strikes of the war as Russian rocket hits grocery store as Zelensky meets leaders to plead for aid

Vladimir Putin’s troops have slain more than 50 Ukrainians after a rocket slammed into a crowded village café and grocery store in the eastern region of Kharkiv – in one of the deadliest strikes targeting innocent civilians since the war began. 

The missile strike decimated the two buildings in the middle of the afternoon in the village of Hroza in the Kupyansk district of Kharkiv, which had been filled with men, women and children at the time. 

Around 60 people had been attending a wake…