Vladimir Putin‘s troops have slain nearly 50 Ukrainians while they were shopping at a grocery store in a village in the eastern region of Kharkiv – the latest in a string of barbaric rocket attacks targeting innocent civilians.
The rocket strike decimated a cafe and shop 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.
The local governor said that at least 49 people, including a six-year-old boy, had been killed in today’s horrific attack. Harrowing images from the scene the bodies of the victims lined up on the side of the road.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is meeting Western leaders including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to plead for more aid, condemned Russia for the slaughter.
‘The brutal Russian crime of hitting an ordinary grocery store with a rocket is a completely deliberate terrorist attack,’ Zelensky said in a statement on social media.
The leader urged Western allies to help strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses, saying that ‘Russian terror must be stopped.’
A woman collapses with grief as she kneels next to the bodies of Ukrainian civilians killed in the Russian strike on the grocery store on Thursday
The rocket attack decimated a cafe and shop 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. Pictured: Firefighters at the scene
Nearly 50 people have been killed in a Russian rocket strike as they went food shopping at a store in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv
The rocket attack decimated a cafe and shop in the middle of the afternoon in the village of Hroza in the Kupyansk district of Kharkiv today
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) speaks with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the start of a plenary session of the European Political Community summit today
‘Russia needs this and similar terrorist attacks for only one thing: to make its genocidal aggression the new norm for the whole world,’ Zelensky said.
‘Now we are talking with European leaders, in particular, about strengthening our air defence, strengthening our soldiers, giving our country protection from terror. And we will respond to the terrorists.’
The village of Hroza is around 20 miles west of Kupiansk, a frontline town where Mosco’s forces have been pushing to recapture territory they lost last year to Ukrainian troops. It is estimated to have had a pre-war population of around 500 people.
The barbaric strikes comes as Zelensky met with Sunak today at a European summit in Granada, Spain. Some 50 European leaders are meeting in the southern city to stress that they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears to have weakened.
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